Bøger af Carol McMillan

The author takes the reader on a journey from the sheltered suburban life of a white girl-through trying marijuana and dancing to Janis Joplin during the Summer of Love in San Francisco, having a spiritual epiphany about the Oneness of the Universe while on an entomology camping expedition across Africa, and then returning to realize that the Flower Children she'd left behind had somehow shared her epiphany. Carol is shocked to realize the depths of injustice of the world, the nefarious workings of her own government, and the extent of racism even in her own liberal family. Through the struggles and joys of protests against the Vietnam war, picnics in Golden Gate Park, a new relationship, and becoming awakened to white privilege, as a teacher in inner-city Oakland, she changes the direction of her life. Carol seeks to lead her life in ways that align with the woven Tapestry she perceives as the interconnection of all parts of the universe.

"Carol McMillan's Grand Canyon poems take us on a journey of gentle reflection and precipitous adventure, filling each moment with wonder." - Jim Milstead, the Bard of Bellingham"Carol McMillan may ... invite levity into the lives of friends and acquaintances, but it is the grit of her words; deep, warm, hard, strong, riveting words; that will take you inward. Hold her book in your palms and breathe the Grand Canyon as experienced by a poet adventuress. If you don't have the courage (like me) to take such a journey, know that McMillan has done it for you. Her book is full of the raw experience of raging white water, towering red walls and rarely seen sunsets. McMillan includes her photographs and paintings. I am in awe of the writer as well as the scenery." - CJ Prince, author of Mother, May I?