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Going Out Dancing: PoemsProduct Attributes:Product Code: 7335
ISBN: 9781558965393
Publisher: Skinner House
Publication Date: 5/23/08
Pages: 104
Size: 5.5 X 8.5
Binding Information: Paperback
Order:Availability: In Stock
Description:More than 70 poems—some old favorites, others brand new. Ric Masten has challenged and inspired audiences nationwide for decades with his unique mix of musical ministry and poetry. Best known as the author of the beloved hymn "Let It Be a Dance," Masten was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 1999. A pioneer of community ministry, Masten has been a Unitarian Universalist minister since 1971. His accolades include being named "Troubadour and People's Poet of Carmel" and the "Poet Laureate of Prostate Cancer" by the National Prostate Cancer Coalition. Praise for Going Out Dancing: "Ric often said his poetry was like a corral around an idea that opened it up so that it could be seen and experienced. This collection of Ric's poetry is a "corral" around him, a revealing summary of his life and work. For me, reading them was a stroll through the 36 years I have known him!" John Frykman, Ph.D, is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and organizer of the first Drug Treatment Program at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic."Ric has spent over forty years distilling his observations about life into poems nobody else could have written. As he enters hospice care, this collection of poems old and new goes to press. Ric, the venerable caterpillar who has had his butterfly moments, leaves us laughter and tears and the ever-fresh exhortation: 'Through the good times and the bad times too, let it be a dance.' " Gordon Gibson, minister emeritus, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Elkhart, Indiana Excerpt:
Table Of Contents:Let It Be a DanceElephants The Writing on the Wall Ashes Déjà vu The Good News Endline The Exile Full Circle Sleep Ripples Homesick at Home Act of God For Anne Sexton (After) Voice of the Hive Nancy Malone Regarding Doctors The Caterpillar and the Butterfly The Letting Go Death Is Death Helpline Harry Grief Old Fossils Carbon Dated On the Mountain Christa Days of Your Bore Mother’s Last Words Support Group The Obituaries Bilateral Orchectomy Another Kind of Noah From the Shore The Alternative Living in My Mind A Word for Survival Old Soldiers Old Men The Price You Pay for Sunflowers When Giants Pass Grandma Ollie Turns 100 Like Pharoah and the Man from La Mancha Jerraldine Not Exactly a Command Performance Dementia PSA Dread The Prisoners Mother’s Voice as Part of the Estate Vanishing Species House of Grandfathers Watchful Waiting Boxer Free Choice Beginning the Deathwatch The Wagon Master Syndrome Garden Pavilion Annual Checkup Day of the Dogfish An Encounter with Robinson Jeffers Bixby Bridge Incident An Evangelist on Cell Block PC Mother Load Turn About Pebbles and Crumbs Me and Pancho Villa Crying for Chris The Road Home Loneliness On Butterfly Wings With Birth To Look Forward To Whales Off Palo Colorado Dance Benediction |
     
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