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An intimate and powerful memoir, Driving to Clarinda recounts one Iowa familyÂ’s incredible challenge in coming to terms with mental illness during the 1960s and 1970s, a time when precious little was known about bipolar disorder. Rosanne Bachman vividly describes the turmoil of her motherÂ’s struggle against the disease and shares the heartwarming bonds of love that connect one generation to the next.

But at its core, Driving to Clarinda is the story of a child who finds her voice in the world by realizing that the only way to get past heartache is to confront it straight on.

Advance Praise for Driving to Clarinda

“[Bachman] has a unique way of storytelling that moves you along with a simple rhythm and the self-deprecating humor so typical of Iowans. There is definitely value in telling this story.”
—Robert D. Ray, former governor of Iowa

“Bachman manages to comment on the big issues of loyalty, prejudice, spirituality, trauma, and recovery through the eyes of a child and set us on a course of thinking about our own family and our own past. Anyone who cares for an ill or elderly family member should read this book. The little child who had no voice has a big one now.”
—Eboni Green, RN, MS, Caregiver Support Services, Omaha

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Novelist Geoff Bakers said, ''Clarinda Harriss writes poems with precision and humor about Baltimore, sex, mortality, and toads; these are poems to read first thing in the morning, and late at night; they have the clarity of early light and the seductiveness of dreams.''

Well-crafted poems for grown-ups, by a grown-up, Mortmain is Harriss' sixth collection and focuses on growing up and growing older, without giving up sensuality and sexuality--indeed, perhaps, increasing these. Poet Moira Egan says, ''There has never been a more voluptuous, ripened-berry, fox-stole-scary mingling of death-in-life and life-in-death. Ever.''.
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Air Travel consists of 95 pages of poetry on subjects ranging from a Marine’s death by AIDS and other modern/urban events through confrontation of personal ghosts to passionate, sexy, grown-up love poems. “Air Travel reflects a mature and perceptive consciousness: knowing, insightful. It is sometimes a poetic memoir, sometimes a wry objective look at human foibles (her own included). . .celebrating, with memories of life, those who have gone.” -- Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director, Salmon Publishing, Ireland Harriss’ fourth poetry collection reflects a vigorous life of the mind, body and spirit, as well as a lively tension between freedom and formalism in craft, its voice as poignant and pointed, funny and fierce as ever..
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Dirty Blue Voice is award-winning poet and publisher Clarinda Harriss' latest poetry collection

"In these poems, burnished with maturity and wisdom, Clarinda Harriss reminds us that the Cartesian split of body and spirit is false and provides little consolation. The body remains more packed with desire, joy and language than we were ever taught to imagine. She celebrates as no poet has the resilience of lust, love and language and unblinking witnesses their loss. These poem throb with the passion of ideas and command the logic of sensuality." -- David Bergman

"Calling out sometimes with the clear vowels of the infant, sometimes with the rag and bone shop incantations of the crone, Clarinda Harriss collars the passerby and draws him as only the archetypal seductress can into her lair of lights and rhythms and shapes and musics. With the sandpaper rasp of Ted Hughes' Crow, her Vox shatters whatever is common or expected. At times ecstatic as Oliver, often physical as Olds, always workmanlike as Plath, this is a poet whose voice rises with essential clarity very, very far above the buzz of contemporary poetry. There is crystal in these pages, there is steel." -- Bruce Sager

"In poems like Confetti, Cells, and others in Dirty Blue Voice, Clarinda Harriss gets 'past the electric drone' and 'the buzz of the mall' to turn a keen eye and frank perspective on early 21st- century America, where the metaphyical conflict between body and spirit stirs up the energy driving these poems." -- Terence Winch.
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