I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted

This is the third book of the series and it is the most sensitive and powerful! Poems celebrating womanhood and femininity, stories full of strength and emotions...I read this book before and I just finished it again.. so overwhelming with different experience in every page .. the boundless limits of a woman's endurance .. the feeling of satisfaction that gratifies a female giving her pride and strength.. This is a book that you can read over and over.. a poem one day ..a short story on another.. enjoy!

This book flows with wisdom about the stages of a woman's life. There is arm pumping joy, tears of compassion and sadness and the affirmation of the person within over the external skin. "..if by wearing silk, my value mountswhat happens when I'm bare?"There are pieces that apply to whatever stage of life a woman is passing through. There are pieces that bring the smiles of remembering past stages. There are pieces that point to possible routes for the journeys to come.Read and enjoy this passage from "Combustion""When I have a hot flash....I watch, astounded, as an invisible hand tosses water on the stones of my body, and I ignite. How can flesh not melt? Then, of necessity, I give up the watch and close my eyes and float on the water, and then the fire expends itself, and I pick up my little fan and create a breeze something like the ones that frequsent northern lakes at night. Then I just sit in the quiet puddle of my flesh. If it is the middle of the night I sleep the good sleep of a person cleansed."

A friend of mine frequently quotes Jenny Joseph's "Warning". In searching for this for her birthday, I was instantly hooked on the poems and stories in this book and "When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple". I will be giving these and recommending these to others!

I've read this book cover to cover several times and have sent it to my daughters and friends as a gift. The last poem in it is truly wonderful, "If Death Were A Woman".

I have not had the opportunity to read the entire book - it's a collection of poems and short prose - although I have read a number of selections. Right now I'm on line to order a copy for me, for my sister, and for my granddaughter.My introduction to the book was by my beautiful niece, who read a poem from the book, "A Living Will" by Naomi Halperin, at the funeral of my mother who lived her last year's with Alzheimer's disease.Highly recommended!!!!!!!!!!!! (Thank you, Becky)