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MacAdams, Phoebe

Literature & Fiction

Tombouctou Books

<p>Poetry. LIVELIHOOD explores the experience of teaching in a large inner city high school in Los Angeles. These poems chronicle the stories of students and classes, faculty meetings, and the tragedies that occur in the course of a school year, as well as the Los Angeles Unified teachers strike of 1989. The third part of the book is a journal in verse of one year in the classroom.<br><br>"Congratulations to Phoebe MacAdams for these journeys through her creativity with their fine attention to the enormous importance of well-versed daily detail."—Ed Sanders</p>

Livelihood

History & Criticism

Cahuenga Press

Poetry. This book is an acceptance and celebration of life in the city of Los Angeles, a difficult, hard to navigate and sometimes unlovely place, which has, nevertheless, provided a creative force in the life of the author that is constant and that has sustained her. The book chronicles her life as she writes and works. She "reminds us to give thanks daily for the fragile miracles of the back porch, the arroyo, the tree-lined sidewalk, the coastal fog. This is a chronicle of the poetry that awaits us mere footsteps from the front door, fifteen minutes north of Downtown gridlock, or inches from our fingertips. Her simple prayers evoke the wild abundance of flora, fauna, vistas and weather we would miss had she not been alongside to point them out to us"--Amelie Frank.

Strange Grace

Poetry

Poetry. TOUCHING STONE charts MacAdams's journey as she deals with the deaths of three family members, along the way finding mystery and the numinous presence of stone. She says in her introduction that "[f]rom the stillness of stone come words, comes a voice, come poems." According to Amelie Frank, "What she reports back to us from her daily pilgrimages should give us hope: truth and beauty are at hand everywhere we look and always just as we need it most."

Touching Stone

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