“Mary Sue Koeppel’s poetry is compassionate, female, and distinctive. If you don’t know her work, here is a great place to start. If you do, you won’t be disappointed. From gentle build to intensity, from intensity to gentle fall, this is a lovely book.”—Lola Haskins

Between the Bones is a structured and unified gathering of poems, poems that speak of fresh wounds and ancient healing, of emptiness and fulfillment. From the opening lines of “Getting the Angels to Talk” to the concluding words of the wonderfully apt “How to Say Good-bye Indestructibly,” the reader is embraced by a voice simultaneously innocent and experienced moving along a path of sensual awakenings. This is a journey of shared solitude, patiently navigated by a poet skilled in traversing the harsh earth with a compassionate and boundless spirit. Between the Bones is a book of enduring breath deserving of a thousand reads—and more.

Mary Sue Koeppel, the longtime editor of Kalliope, a journal of women’s literature and art, is the author of In the Library of Silences — Poems of Loss (Rhiannon Press, 2001). She co-edited the anthology Women of Vision, an Experience in Seeing by the Visually Impaired. Koeppel won the Esme Bradberry National Contemporary Poets Prize (Wordart), an Art Ventures Grant, and three nominations for Pushcart awards

Articles, book reviews, poetry, and short stories by Mary Sue Koeppel have appeared nationally and internationally in journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. She interviews writers for the half hour TV programs Worth Quoting and Writer-to-Writer. With her husband, Robert Gentry, she is a co-editor of www.writecorner.com, the website designed for writers and readers seeking new venues for publication.

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