THE SLEEPING
				Caroline Maun Paperback - April 2006 64 Pages ISBN: 0-9712676-2-6 USD $14.95 + Shipping $1.50 The Sleeping, the first book of poetry by Caroline Maun, explores the meanings of what "home" is with naked vulnerability. Maun analyzes relationships with parents, her significant others, strangers, and herself in ways that are — or become — identifiable to the reader.

About the Author, Caroline Maun

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“Caroline Maun’s The Sleeping is a compelling and intimate exploration of the self. In language that is at the same time sophisticated and coherent, Maun offers startling images of her body as it is acted upon by the doctor, the rapist, the lover. In other poems the poet bears witness to terrifying narratives —the cicadas who return every seventeen years only to emerge and to die. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the volume is Maun’s ability to recall private places and through them create universal images of childhood, sexuality, and death.”  — Mary Jane Lupton, Author of Menstruation and Psychoanalysis

The Sleeping: Professionally, I've known Caroline Maun for several years; maybe five years, as long as there has been a ChickenBones. The first poem she shared with me and that I posted on our website is Faceless, a poem about a lynching, inspired by a postcard. It was a good poem, well executed with the right sympathy and perspective, the right tragic irony. I did not think much of her outside of that. I knew she was a professor at Morgan State University (MSU). I saw her numerous times at conferences sponsored by literary societies based at MSU. And I saw her more frequently when I became a member of Mid-Atlantic Writers Association (MAWA). I had lunch with her once in Charles Village at an outside cafe when she was planning a website for MAWA. At that time, I believe she was also up for tenure; she had been at Morgan for almost six years (1998-2004).
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