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June 28, 2018 By Sandy McIntosh

 

Denise Duhamel’s Original Chapter One:

Mr. Rogers and Me

I started writing “books” in the fourth grade while sequestered in Crawford Allen Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI.  A severe asthmatic, I befriended other kids with ailments who became the basis for my characters. In one such “novel,” the girl with cancer has magical, witchy powers because of her chemo treatments and cast spells turning our foul tasting medicines into apple juice. In another, the boy with cystic fibrosis has a cape and, curing all our illnesses, leads us in an escape from the hospital. My one of a kind, self-published “books” were hand written on 3-hole lined paper, tied together with ribbons to form a spine, and decorated with my own cover art. The backs spouted fake blurbs with celebrities popular in 1971:  This book changed my life!— Mary Tyler Moore. Or Possibly the best book of the century!— Mr. Rogers.

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Marsh Hawk Press Artistic Advisory Board

Sandy McIntosh, Publisher

Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Alicia Ostriker
David Shapiro
Anne Waldman
John Yau

In Memory of Marie Ponsot, Robert Creeley, Paul Pines, Allan Kornblum, Rochelle Ratner, Corinne Robins & Claudia Carlson 

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Praise for Books

PAUL PINES: Charlotte Songs

The great themes—like Love, Death and Family— have inspired masterpieces and, alas, Hallmark Cards. In Charlotte Songs, Paul Pines celebrates his daughter. But, if you want the Hallmark Card version of fatherhood, you’ve come to the wrong place. Pines gives us the full paradox of living with his child as she grows from toddler to young woman. Inventive, humorous, baffling and poignant.

— Dalt Wonk

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