Truth Serum

By Dorothy Neumann

a personal and sensitive study of passion and its exquisite colorsa journey through its many curves

Dorothy Neumanns poems bring us into a world of broken saints and living gods, disenchanted dreamers and strayed revelers. They convey the sound of a lovers eyes and the sense of importance in what we do for our friends, colleagues, aging pets, and dying parents. Above all they bear witness to intense feeling, stunning discoveries about ones self and others, and the connectedness of private and public. You can feel the author weighing each poem in the palm of her hand and sending it to us with radiant generosity.

William J. Kennedy, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University

TRUTH SERUM is a complex, intimate, and haunting collection of poems that explores layers of human experience with warmth infused with deeply affecting insight. It is a colorful tapestry woven together from the strands of a rich life, a personal lifetime work of enormous power, passion, and wisdom. The reader is swept along on a bittersweet tide of honest and keen observation that reflects an introspective intensity of both the deeply personal and the universal with an absorbing integrity. The doubt, longing, and darkness of the human soul searching for light with startling imagery lingers and crackles in the air a search for lifes meaning and it is enough a superb accomplishment!

Nancy E. Flaherty Rowe, Director
TARA Project - Empowering Communities, Ending Poverty
www.TARAProject.org




Dorothy Neumann is an award winning theatre director and teacher in the Washington, D.C. area.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491728673

Dorothy Neumann

Dorothy Neumann is an award-winning theatre director and teacher. She is a pioneer in developing the small professional theatre circuit in Washington, D.C. and continues to teach and direct in the area.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-2866-6 (sc)

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iUniverse rev. date: 04/10/2014

Contents

From Of Lonely Dawns

To A.A.

thank you, ee/when jimmyandbobbyanddick….

Prophecy

washington square

Sisyphus

Graduation ’65

a winter’s night

a night: vacation

Strayed Reveler: Revisited: For Pope Francis

Fantastic Friendship

To G.

From Blue Rain

Miracles

gentle room

resting

airport

heritage

quiet poems…

sketching….

Indian Dance

requisition

Xmas Tree

vacation: puzzle

spring

cherishing

From Horizons

Folklife

canal walk

d.c. space

for Rosemary in thyme

dawn

fatherland

nine to five

train ride to the north

first impressions

pub

silence

Sapphic Ode

From Striding

Portrait

Samos 7pm

washington square revisited

For Josie: Misbegotten Moons

Golden Boy/Newtown

For Katie

Happy New Year - Kabul

silver beach

Quinson

Tribute: Teaching

To Langston in Anacostia

For Barbara

The Price

Transitions

Johannesburg

Infant Harvest

For Terri on her 50th

renewing…

Purple Waiting Room

top of the hub

night moment

Losing Lawrence

For Alto

Mimosa Sunday

Millenium

About the Author

For past pain, past loves,

Today, friends and Barbara

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Of Lonely Dawns

Early Poems

1963-1970

"For she talked to me about…

childhood, mine and her own,

and about those years…when

the capacity for love, in its

first youth, embraces not only

both sexes, but all and everything,

sensuous and spiritual,

and endows all things with a

spell of love and…an ease of

transformation such as in later

years comes again only to