My Rituals

ISBN: 1481862456

Author: Hess, Maggie Ellen Robin

Condition: New

Product Description This piece is divided into five sections, in assorted genres.  The first section is a personal essay on the subject of rituals.  It deals with observations on my process of obtaining rituals as part of my life and of what rituals mean to me.  The second section is a reflection essay on writing as an integral ritual in my life.  The following segment contains poems about tea.  Tea drinking is a major contemplative ritual for me.  The fourth segment includes journal entries on my routine of walking.  Finally there is a brief Afterward wrapping up the piece. About the Author Maggie Hess was born into an already poetic family.  Her parents Adrianne and Errol Hess were both English majors.  Her mother reads three books a week and her father was a founding editor of The Sow's Ear Poetry Magazine.  When the five children came into adulthood, Maggie Hess looked around at her intelligent and self made siblings, among them a doctor, a transgender rights activist, a computer scientist, and a multitasking artist extraordinaire.  Maggie Hess nearly gave up finding her own career path, since all of the good ones were already taken in her family.  Finally, after a lot of self exploration, she decided to look inward at what she already was good at herself.  Maggie found poetry.