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Running Wild
by Patricia McMillen
Full-length, Paper
List: $22.99
979-8-88838-501-2
2024
Patricia McMillen‘s first full-length poetry collection, Running Wild, draws on the poet’s mid-twentieth-century Midwestern suburban childhood, committed involvement in her Chicago, Illinois, and American communities, and the forays in and out of psychotherapy that have marked her first seventy years. Ultimately poetry deposits her, and the reader, on the cusp of old age, not without a fight. Fearlessly feminist, occasionally metered and/or rhymed, these are poems to read and re-read, on or off the bus, train, page or computer screen. A student of the late Maureen Seaton, Barry Silesky and Luis Alberto Urrea, among others, McMillen has more than a lot to say about living life on her own terms…her poems will leave readers saying, “I know exactly what she’s talking about.”
Patricia McMillen is a retired lawyer, folk musician and clown-in-becoming. Born and raised in Illinois, she briefly practiced commercial law with the Chicago-based firm once called Mayer, Brown and Platt, but threw that over in 1992 for the practices of banjo playing, poetry, and freelance advocacy. Along the way she acquired the Hebrew name Tova (“good”), married and divorced twice, and arrived at adulthood with minimal scars and a single tattoo. This book is dedicated to her first ex-husband, Jack, who, inexplicably, remains a loyal friend.
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