DRAWN PARALLELS

About the Book

DRAWN PARALLELS By JoAnne Bauer, Ph.D. Coining the term poemoir to describe her book, prize-winning author JoAnne Bauer tells stories from her life in this two-part collection of narrative and lyric richness. Her past surfaces deftly and often humorously, through complex layers of poetic imagery and memory. This ekphrastic project provides thought-enriching overlays and echoings, as Bauer references work of master artists, musicians, philosophers and other literary folks, as well as offering her original mixed media collages and altered photographs. In five sections, we travel with her --from a sheltered childhood into armored feminism and past the twists and turns of loves’ vicissitudes, emerging into good-natured fun and transformed by earned wisdom, ready to reckon with mortality’s abrupt shortcomings. From the immediacy of captured details, her personal and unique path flowers into universal revelations about a woman’s life fully lived.

About the Author

JoAnne Bauer holds a Ph.D. in communication arts and technology and advanced degrees in special education leadership, psychology of religion and philosophy. Co-author of Beyond Technology’s Promise (Cambridge University Press), she presented research articles at national conferences and taught academic writing. Her poetry has received prizes and small press acceptances regionally, nationally, and abroad, including a chapbook by Finishing Line Press. Coining the term poemoir for this collection, JoAnne offers us lyric as well as narrative depth, humorous details, layers of imagery and, ultimately, universal revelations about a life fully lived