It happens this way…
Thanks to all of you who have already pre-ordered Nothing More to Lose, my poetry chapbook based on based on Therese Kolbert Dieringer’s autobiography, My Life Lived and Remembered – A journey through Hungary, Germany, and America.
There’s still time to order your copy at its pre-publication price.
Deadline: December 1, 2020
About the collection:
Nothing More to Lose is a 60-page chapbook filled with poems written in Therese’s voice. It contains photos of the Kolbert family as they journey across Germany. It ends with a series of “Corky poems” that capture Therese’s meeting, marrying, and traveling with her dear husband of thirty years.
As Therese says:
“In Nothing More to Lose, Carolyn Martin has read and written my soul. No one has been able to feel what I felt before this poet shared her inspired words with me and now with the world. I spent more than 70 years trying to forget the events that shaped my life and gave me nightmares. Now, through working with Carolyn on both my autobiography and this chapbook, I feel healed. The nightmares are gone. I hope these poems will help readers find courage in the realization we are not here on our own. We are guided by a Higher Power. This book is a good way to end my journey.”
Click here to order your copy today.
For several years I had been playing with the idea of writing a series of poems based on the journey of a dear friend whose family escaped Hungary after the Nazi invasion in 1944. They spent the next seven years starving in Germany before finally arriving in the US in 1952. I had helped Therese Kolbert Dieringer write her autobiography in 2007, and her stories of terror, cruelty, and kindness haunted me ever since.
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