Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - The Poems - Softcover

Elaine G. McGillicuddy

9780966822885: Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - The Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966822889 ISBN 13: 9780966822885

Publisher: Caritas Communications, 2012

My husband Francis died on January 3, 2010. During the previous three months and ten days after we learned he had bone cancer, we shared unforgettable experiences. I communicated many of these in my emails to family and friends, bringing them along with us during our passage into the unknown - through his hospice at home to his death. In September, 2010, I began rereading the letters I had begun writing in September, 2009. Then, two books of poetry given to me by a friend, sparked something new in my life. The books were Donald Hall s The Painted Bed and Without, in which he laments the death of his wife, Jane Kenyon, also a poet. Fresh from revisiting and reliving Francis and my experiences, and with the example of a grief-stricken poet to encourage me - poems started coming. The first one sets the scene: I was a nun and you, a priest.

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About the Author:

Elaine G. McGillicuddy, a native Mainer, is a retired high school English teacher. She lived in Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, and Waterville, Maine, during the 15�ƒ�ƒ�‚�‚�ƒ�‚�‚½ years that she was an Ursuline nun. In 1968, while Campus Minister at Colby College, she met and later married Francis A. McGillicuddy after he left the clerical priesthood. She has a B.A. in English from the College of New Rochelle, New York, an M.A. in Religious Studies from Providence College, Rhode island, and is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, leader of the Dances of Universal Peace, and permaculture designer. Widowed in 2010, McGillicuddy lives a largely monastic life at home in Portland Maine. While working on her next book, Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - The Memoir: A Love Story, she is on sabbatical from teaching a weekly yoga class at Portland Yoga Studio, which she co-founded with Francis in 1989. This is her first collection of poetry.

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