For Ladies Only: Dedicate to the Color Pink

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About the author
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Ayin M. Adams makes her home in Maui, Hawai`i, where rainbows are plenty and sunsets looks like sunrises. She travels throughout the United States reading and lecturing. For Ladies Only: Dedicated to the Color Pink is Ayin M. Adams fourth book of poetry, following the acclaimed, The Woods Deep Inside Me and her historic ground-breaking book: African Americans In Hawai`i: A Search For Identity.
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Ayin M. Adams is an award-winning poet whose work has been published in magazines and numerous anthologies including, “Bum Rush The Page” a Defjam Poetry Publication. She has edited four poetry volumes for her students, including “Graffiti Dreams.” Ayin M. Adams is the winner of the Pat Parker Poetry Prize, The Audre Lorde Memorial Prose Prize, and the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award. .
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About the book
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For Ladies Only: Dedicate to the Color Pink
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… slowly one (of them) grew larger

sickness embedded

like journalists in war

hard as an orange, clean as a bald head

while the other twin remained untouched

unscathed by the hostile legions of contamination

that grew next to the heart we once called home.

The griefs of my own lie heavy in my breasts!

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More information:
Books are available from bookstores or directly from Pacific Raven Press at www.pacificravenpress.com and www.ayinadams.com