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Paper Dancing

Pam O'Brien

Pam O'Brien began writing poetry while at Allegheny College. She has worked in government planning, grantwriting, advertising/public relations, and publishing in addition to teaching college English and elementary school Spanish. O'Brien holds a Visiting Lectureship at the University of Pittsburgh where she serves as the Associate Director of Public and Professional Writing and teaches a variety of composition courses. Her first chapbook, Kaleidoscopes, was published in 1999. She is a member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop.

From the book:

THE LITTLE MERMAID

My eyes extend beyond the farthest bloom of the waves;

I lose and find myself in the long water…

Theodore Roethke

On your sixteenth birthday

you swim to the surface for a day

and finally see the strange creatures

of your grandmother's stories.

The ones who walk.

And you want legs, too.

You want to live in the palace,

escape the danger of being submerged

or of drowning in that long water.

So you strike a deal with the sea witch.

She takes your voice and delivers the handsome prince.

And now you are like them,

except for the long silence

that follows you everywhere.

Prufrock claimed he heard the mermaids

singing each to each. But you,

now beyond that farthest bloom of the waves,

you must learn to sing to your prince

from the other side of words.

Paper Dancing is a 32 page hand-sewn chapbook.

$7.00

ISBN 0-941053-42-3

TO ORDER Paper Dancing ON-LINE

To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to.

Send orders to:

FootHills Publishing

PO Box 68

Kanona, NY 14856

Thank you for your support!


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