Riding My Tricycle

About the Book

Waking and sleeping experiences are inextricably intertwined, causing dreams and visions to mingle throughout our days and nights. At home and abroad, when we meet strangers and relatives, they have a way of entering our dreams. While we sleep, our lives become inhabited with the spirits of those who exist and those who have died, as well as fantastic characters whom we meet for the first time. This cycle continues into the day, when we carry mysterious episodes and stories away from the dream into daylight. This book brings together the nights and days of a woman who recognizes the importance of staying in touch with our ideas and emotions, whether awake or asleep. With delightful imagery and sustained passion, her poems portray the people and creatures who inhabit our conscious and subconscious moments. The magical innocence of childhood memories combines with the maturity of adult wisdom. Readers will recognize some of their own fears and desires through the eyes and ears of this perceptive poet.

About the Author

Dr. Ann M. DeVenezia published her first book Grave Rubbings: New and Selected Poems, dedicated to her ancestors, on her seventieth birthday. A former high school English teacher, she graduated from the College of Saint Elizabeth. Her Master of Letters in Humanities and Doctor of Letters in Russian Studies are from Drew University. The recipient of a Dodge Grant for her study of the interrelationship of the arts, she has traveled extensively in Europe, Russia, and China. DeVenezia’s poetry appears in Asphodel, Caduceus, Connecticut River Review, Gradiva, Italian Americana, Lips, Off the Coast, Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Pyramid Poetry Plus, Rattle, Red River Review, Stray Dog, and Tar River Poetry, among others. She and her husband Richard reside in northern New Jersey.