Spit and Spirit
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We find our own harmony and fill our seconds with its song that plays its way into our days and nights and writes the scores of our lives. We believe we are the composers of our being in this mirage of bent light and shadows. (From "Mirage")
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About the Book
Spit and Spirit is a collection of poems that celebrate life. It contains poems that sing of our shared experiences as human beings. The poems in this book are about people we all know in one way or another, about the natural world that we all share, about the art of poetry that lives in every human heart and excites every human mind, and about the Spirit that breathes fire and life into every living being.
Spit and Spirit is the score of the spit of everyday life and the Spirit of that wondrous, mystical, interminable life that will always be a mystery and a miracle for every poet-- every human being. It is a collection of poems about sinners and saints, about dirt and divinity, about you and me.
About the Author
Pauline Beck is a former English teacher; she taught English in grades 7-12 in the Youngstown City School District for 25 years. She has a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in English from Youngstown State University. She is a Northeast Ohio Writing Project fellow and a Poetry Alive! seminar participant. She has had several poems published in Ohio Teachers Write, No War, No More, Youngstown Poetry, and Mahoning Valley Poetry. She currently lives on a 30-acre farm in New Bedford, Pennsylvania, with her cat Calpurnia and her two goats Pygmalion and Billy Budd, surrounded by the beauty and wonder of nature.