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    Mules of Love
    Mules of Love
    Mules of Love
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    Mules of Love

    By Ellen Bass

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    Ellen Bass’s best-selling work of non-fiction, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (HarperCollins 1988, 1994), has sold over one million copies and has been translated into nine different languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., Double Take, and Field. In 1980, Ms. Bass was awarded the Elliston Book Award for Poetry from the University of Cincinnati. Last year, she won Nimrod/Hardman’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, judged by Thomas Lux. She was nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize. Intro by Dorianne Lux
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateDec 20, 2013
    ISBN9781938160363
    Mules of Love
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    Ellen Bass

    A pioneer in the field of healing from child sexual abuse, Ellen Bass currently teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University in Oregon. Her poetry books include Mules of Love and The Human Line.

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      Book preview

      Mules of Love - Ellen Bass

      I.

      If There Is No God

      Everything on the Menu

      In a poem it doesn’t matter

      if the house is dirty. Dust

      that claims the photographs like a smothering

      love. Sand spilled from a boy’s sneaker,

      the faceted grains scattered on the emerald rug

      like the stars and planets of a tiny

      solar system. Monopoly

      butted up against Dostoyevsky.

      El techo, a shiny sticker, labeling the ceiling

      from the summer a nephew studied Spanish.

      Mold on bread in the refrigerator

      is as interesting as lichen on an oak—

      its minuscule hairs like the fuzz

      on an infant’s head, its delicate

      blues and spring greens, its plethora of spores,

      whole continents of creatures, dazzling our

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