Telling Herstory

Poems provide insight into the complex psychic spiritual and practical implications of relationships events persons and situations in terse rather dense use of words and images. A poem is an emotional exercise between author who presents the subject as he sees it and provides scope for the reader to interpret or intuit the essential meaning of her/his words. A poem in effect addresses the DNA of a subject and enlists the imagination of the reader in exploring that subject. A poem is a joint project of author and reader, not an ego trip of idle scribblers. I join with all willing readers in this mutual adventure.

A picaresque story beginning 1938 in the Philippines and General MacArthur, 1942 Guadalcanal, 1941-43 FDR White House, China Mao and Revolution 1948, California dreaming 1952, Georgetown 1954, Army 1961-62, I Have a Dream and Jack and Jackie 1963, Washington riots and mayhem 1965-68, California dreaming 1977, Russia and China romance 2007-12, celebrating a score of characters and events that shaped the American Dream. America, our salvation and our destiny!

Abington College, very small, antique, once women-only New England college, is venerable and broke, hires a butch Jewish PhD from Brooklyn to salvage what can be in the face of crashing enrollment and desperate need to retain full paid tuition students despite their academic deficiencies. Add to this crisis management, Amanda Hyde (with Jekyll as foreground), English, former au pair girl employed by a New York mafia family, now head of the Abington College Alumni Fund, a picaresque rise from au pair to stripper at the Kit Kat Club in Manhattan and by means of forged documentation to eligibility for her current position, aided in her financial and professional success by a hit man and a plague of fatal accidents among the alumni. All part of the larcenous tale you are about to read if you are lucky enough to get a copy of this book.