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Wake Up a Woman Kindle Edition
“This is a collection of poems & short stories with a depth that I found to be quite profound. This book truly touched me. By the end of the book, with tears in my eyes and a smile on my face, all I could say was,”Wow!” A 5-star must-read for any woman of any age.” - Heather
aura A. Lord is a master wordsmith. Her style is unforced, bold and powerful.
She has an intensity which reminds me of Anne Sexton.
I was curious to read this book, Wake Up a Woman. I particularly wished to see if things have changed for women since I was the age that the author is presently.
Although that is not the main thrust of the vignettes and poetry, it is evident that being a woman remains a way of defining one’s life which is never an easy road. The roles of mother, lover, member of a family, caretaker, and more, combined with having a personal goal for ones ever-changing self are still as complicated and complex now as they were during the time when I was younger.
Ms. Lord’s style of writing drives the reader forward. Because of this, one is encouraged to finish this volume in one sitting.
As I love vignettes and poetry, I enjoyed the fact that the pieces are intact in and of themselves, and yet also fit together like a puzzle.
Wake Up a Woman is a book which goes back and forth in time. However the control the author has is always in evidence. The honesty and integrity of the at times gritty, at times tender, style of writing is great.
I liked the fact that this book puts it out there to the world. It is kind of a testimonial to what means to evolve.
It is true…the author really does Wake Up a Woman, and that woman might just be you.” - Jean Baldridge Yates
“Laura’s words kept me intrigued, turning each page, devouring each story and poem. She weaves visceral background into fragile characters who reach into the reader and make her a part of the words, a part of the stories. The characters in her book are deep and so thoroughly drawn, painted with a fine brush, that it kept me wondering if each short story was actually related to the last.” - Amanda Grace
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 21, 2013
- File size487 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B00E3COOM6
- Publication date : July 21, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 487 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 75 pages
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Laura A. Lord is the author of numerous collections of vignettes and poetry and one awesome children’s book about a T-Rex screwing up her entire day. It’s absolutely a true story.
Laura graduated with an AA in Liberal Arts, with an emphasis in Literature, and then spent a number of years as a writing tutor at her local college. Then she got married for a second time and the man domesticated her. It’s been quite tragic. In some effort to find something more productive than laundry to do all day, Laura started her blog over at History of a Woman, and began writing in earnest. She is also a contributing writer for Tipsy Lit.
Laura’s collections focus heavily on women’s issues in today’s society. She writes:
I’m the liberal, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, secular, outspoken feminist you were warned about. I haven’t traveled the world. In fact, I’ve never even been on an airplane. My upbringing has been a sheltered view in a static, rural town. But I’ve lived enough lives for twelve people. I’ve gone through stages of names, tearing them off like a badge on my shirt and replacing them just as easily. I’ve got battle scars. I didn’t wage war against domestic abuse. My fight or flight kicked in and I ran. I hid, cowering and broken, and spent years trying to get the needle threaded, to stitch the holes in the patchwork quilt of my self-esteem. I never fought the demons of drug abuse and alcoholism. I spent weeks on my sofa, weak and thin, while my mother made me grilled cheese sandwiches and I tried to figure out if I wanted to live or get high. I survived my teenage years, not by resilience, but by pure luck that my attempts to end it were never fruitful. I didn’t learn to love me until every man I’d chosen had managed to redefine “love” as some twisted, ugly thing. Loving myself was never pretty. I wasn’t the hero in my story, I was the human. And this human is writing that story and she’s got a hell of a lot to say.
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She has an intensity which reminds me of Anne Sexton.
I was curious to read this book, Wake Up a Woman. I particularly wished to see if things have changed for women since I was the age that the author is presently.
Although that is not the main thrust of the vignettes and poetry, it is evident that being a woman remains a way of defining one's life which is never an easy road. The roles of mother, lover, member of a family, caretaker, and more, combined with having a personal goal for ones ever-changing self are still as complicated and complex now as they were during the time when I was younger.
Ms. Lord's style of writing drives the reader forward. Because of this, one is encouraged to finish this volume in one sitting.
As I love vignettes and poetry, I enjoyed the fact that the pieces are intact in and of themselves, and yet also fit together like a puzzle.
Wake Up a Woman is a book which goes back and forth in time. However the control the author has is always in evidence. The honesty and integrity of the at times gritty, at times tender, style of writing is great.
I liked the fact that this book puts it out there to the world. It is kind of a testimonial to what means to evolve.
It is true...the author really does Wake Up a Woman, and that woman might just be you.
thanks,
jean