POETRY MONDAY: APRIL 1, 2024
By Categories: Poetry Monday
Good morning, Everyone:
This, as you may or may not know, is National Poetry Month.
If your neighbors are poetry-lovers or poetry-aware, you may have seen posters up in a few places.
This is the morning when we don’t show anyone’s photo.  Instead, we ask that you visit your local bookstore (even if it’s a chain) and take a little time to look over their poetry collection.  Flip through the pages of one or more or find a comfortable place to sit and read a few poems.  You may discover someone you’ve never heard of and/or a poem or two you really love — perhaps enough that you’re willing to stop at the cash register on your way out.
Some stores will have posters or flyers for local poetry readings.  If you’ve never been to one, or not in a long time, you’ll find it a great way to make new friendships or renew old friendships.  You may even get your book signed and begin or add to your collection of first editions.
IRENE WILLIS
POETRY EDITOR

New From IPBooks: Our Time is Up: A Novel by Roberta Satow
By Categories: Books, Literature, Psychoanalysis

eBook Available now on Amazon Kindle Click on the title for the eBook for: Our Time is Up: A Novel
Click Here to Purchase:  Our Time is Up: A Novel by Roberta Satow from IPBooks

The novel is compelling and engaging. The narrative is daring, bold, courageous, and, necessarily, delightfully character-driven. Roberta Satow offers the reader the process of her personal journey of becoming a psychoanalyst. What does that process entail? Each psychoanalyst’s journey is unique, befitting the very nature of psychoanalysis, and yet each unique journey shares something in common with every other psychoanalytic journey – it is deeply personal. Thus, Satow’s novel/memoir  exploring her own journey must involve describing her own personal issues, her own psychoanalysis, her feelings about, and relationship with, her psychoanalyst, and, ultimately, while working with her supervisor,  the process of conducting psychoanalysis with people referred to her while she was attending a psychoanalytic institute. –From the review by Merle Molofsky of Our Time is Up.

Click Here to Read: Merle Molofsky’s review of Our Time is Up: A Novel.

“Only very rarely is the elusive magic of psychotherapy captured in novels/films/professional writings. But this brilliant novel/memoir really evokes what it’s like to be a patient/what it’s like to be a therapist. I laughed/I cried/I learned. . . . Must read.”
—Allen James Frances, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Adult Psychiatry & Psychology Division, Duke University

“This book is a treasure: a memoir-like novel that captures an era, an ethos, and a sociopolitical sensibility Continue reading New From IPBooks: Our Time is Up: A Novel by Roberta Satow

Becoming the Person I Was Meant To Be: A memoir of a patient’s successful psychoanalysis by H. Penny Mishkin
By Categories: Books, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Purchase: Becoming the Person I Was Meant To Be: A memoir of a patient’s successful psychoanalysis by H. Penny Mishkin from IPBooks.nmet

“I couldn’t put this book down. Penny’s heartfelt vulnerability and gift as a storyteller come through every page. She does such an incredible job of providing insight into the world of psychoanalysis in such a relatable and honest way. Her story is inspirational and educational for anyone.”

“I was curious, as many are, as to what psychoanalysis is like. Incredibly moving, insightful, and for anyone considering therapy, this is a must read.”

Most books about psychotherapy are written from the clinician’s perspective. There is very little written directly from the patient’s Continue reading Becoming the Person I Was Meant To Be: A memoir of a patient’s successful psychoanalysis by H. Penny Mishkin

Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests On Its Tunnels
By Categories: Politics

Click Here to Read:  Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests On Its Tunnels by John Spencer on the Modern War Institute website on January 18, 2024.

Click Here to Read: Click Here to Read: The Road To October 7: Hamas’ Long Game, Clarified  by  Devorah Margolin, Matthew Levitt in the Combatting Terrorist Center Journal website on October/November 2023, Volume 16, Issue 10,

Click Here to Read: Section from The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud by Daniel S. Benveniste (IPBooks 2015) on W. Ernest Freud’s time in Palestine 19351936.

Image: United Nations Map.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

POETRY MONDAY: March 4, 2024
By Categories: Poetry Monday

Good morning, everyone.  In keeping with our policy of re-visiting poets who were especially popular with our readers, we’ve chosen to say hello again to the late Maxine Kumin, who last appeared here in 2014.

Here, exactly as she appeared then, is the widely adored poet, Maxine Kumin.

— Irene Willis
Poetry Editor

POETRY MONDAY: May 5, 2014
Maxine Kumin: A Postlude

Those of us still mourning the loss of former U.S. Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6 of this year at 88, have a welcome gift, knowing that she didn’t stop.  Her new book, And Short the Season (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014) is available now, and her voice is as strong as it has always been. Sharp-eyed, keen-witted and ironic as ever, she shies away from nothing in this collection, dedicated to her daughter Judith, whom we Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: March 4, 2024