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Writing Naked illuminates a life like a series of lightning flashes, allowing us glimpsesranging over seven decades and six generations, from "sepia-toned" great-grandmothersto a vivid little grandson. The opening poem, "It's Time," with its "Hey, I'm onlyseventy-five" and "I always do better with deadlines," sets the tone for a collectionalways imbued with wit and joy, considering the sacred in the day-to-day, the humorousin the tragic, the profound in simple clothing. This collection touches on personalexperiences with feisty kindness and startling drollery. Even the poems of bereavementand loss are run through by a current of celebration and homage of the particular personsand through them to life itself. Those dedicated to her father and to the husband who was"the one" of her life are particularly strong and poignant. The title poem shows us the Iof this book, writing, sitting naked on a blanket, in full sunshine under a sky of Canalettoblue, "hiding nothing," as the poems themselves seem to do. Writing Naked is ColeenMarks' début collection and, yes, it's time.Enriqueta Carrington, Translator of Treasury of Mexican Love Poems,Quotations & Proverbs In Writing Naked, Coleen Marks gives us personal poems with a wider resonance:childhood and coming of age in a large, working class Irish-American family, then anadult life of love, work, relationships, and growing older in a long and close marriage.She is an engaging story-teller-in fact the word "stories" crops up as a motif throughoutthe book, as she observes "stories...on the see saw between too simple and too complex."She writes about day jobs and earning a living (not often the subject of poetry), as well asher developing feminist consciousness in a male-dominated social milieu. These firstpersonpoems tell of loved ones and strangers, hardship and play, art and ardor, capturedwith a down-to-earth thoughtfulness that evokes emotions from carefree ("A Room with aView") to deeply touching ("Sgt. Gomez," "At Ninety-One"). Writing Naked conveys anopen-hearted yet clear-eyed optimism, and an ethical commitment to taking one's place inthe world.Maxine Susman Author of Gogama and Provincelands

For years people had been telling Sam Payne to write a book about his adventures. My Life in Aviation, Taking Chances and Having Lots of Luck is his response. In "Taking Chances," he talks about starting to fly, going to Argentina, quitting helicopters and trying for the airlines, working overseas, and quitting TWA to work for Piedmont Airlines. In the "Lots of Luck" part, he tells about getting into the ROTC flight program, being sent to Korea, avoiding near mid-air collisions and engine failures and living through a hijacking. My Life in Aviation tells about all the places he's been, flying in formation with an Andes Condor, flying around the world four times, guarding the President of the United States, and lots of other interesting tales. Sam says flying was a great and fun way of making a living.Since retiring from U.S. Airways, he has been busy. He started playing golf, took up watercolor painting, and travels widely with his wife, Anna-Stina. They have been to all fifty states, have gone on several cruises and have traveled to Europe. Now they live in a great retirement community in West Windsor, NJ, very near where he grew up.