She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections On Motherhood,Used

From the Inside Flap She wore Emerald Then was honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and was a finalist by USA Book News. It is second in the multi awardwinning Celebration series of book by two poets working from two different hemispheres of the planet. Product Description Moods of Motherhood: Thirty poems by awardwinning poets Magdalena Ball and Carolyn HowardJohnson, with original photography by May Lattanzio. A beautifully presented, tender, and strikingly original gift book, ideal for Mother's Day or any day when you want to celebrate the notion of motherhood in its broadest sense. Review She Wore Emerald Then is more than a collection of poems; it is a collection of life. Each, poignantly written, takes the reader to the brink ofemotion and resurrects another time and place as the page is turned. Filled with beautiful words, She Wore Emerald Then is alsofilled with the complexities and challengeslife visits upon us from conception to last breath; a verbal and visual experience from start to finish. An exceptional read, I recommend this book to all who love the written word and the beauty of its gift.~Reviewed by Jozette Aaron, editor of DeSilva's News From the Back Cover '[Both] poets continue to write poems that don't sound either like banal Hallmark cards or the bitteratdysfunctionalfamily jeremiads that habitually torture MFA writing workshop participants.'~Kristin Johnson, screenwriter and founder of the Warrior Poets Project About the Author This little chapbook is the first in the Celebration series of poetry chapbooks is coauthored by Carolyn HowardJohnson and Magdalena Ball.Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews, and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from CCNY (New York), an MBA from Charles Sturt University (NSW), and has studied literature on a postgraduate level at Oxford University (UK) and marketing at Newcastle University (NSW). She lives in on a rural property in New South Wales with her husband and three children. She is also the author of critically acclaimed novels 'Black Cow' and 'Sleep Before Evening'' a nonfiction book, 'The Art of Assessment;' and two poetry books, 'Repulsion Thrust' and 'Quark Soup.'HowardJohnson is an awardwinning author of fiction and nonfiction. She was an instructor for UCLA Extension's worldrenown Writers' Program for nearly a decade. She is the recipient of the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her community's Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. Her poetry is widely published in renowned journals like Poetry Magazine, founded in 1912, and was honored by Writer's Digest.May Lattanzio's photographs illustrate the book.