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Read Beyond Dreams and celebrate spirituality and creativity in a world where "a restless genius wove exotic bright yellow petals through my life and i became one with sunflowers."

The warnings in Drumbeats and Beyond confront some attitudes, events, and violence that threaten us. These fierce poems "reach down your throat to grab your heart in a bloody verbal fist... [where] casual conversation is a hoax".

Feel Heartbeats and Other Signs of Life for a sense of parenting, relationships, illness and dying, since "defrosting poetry for survival... is not a gentle project..."

Joanne Alfano retired to Lakeland, Florida with her life partner following a career in Federal human resources systems. She enjoys her family (especially playing with her granddaughter), writing, reading, drumming, and watching old movies. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines and anthologies. She sees writing as art and craft, creation and recreation, necessity and passion, sedation and seduction, microscope and telescope, celebration and eulogy, story and memoir.