Ordinary & Sacred As Blood: Alabama Women Speak

By Mary C. Moran

Writers from Gulf Shores to New Market, from high schoolers to great-grandmothers, from housewives and doctors to professors and retired accountants, have generously contributed their poems, short... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967267609
• ISBN13: 9780967267609
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Rivers Edge Pub Co
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Southern writing at its best

The cover enchants--intriguing photographs on a background the color of Alabama clay--but it is the writing that captivates. These are Alabama's best women writers telling us stories that will not soon be forgotten.

Alabama Women speak with their talent

Just completed the book and loved it all. Alabama women can be proud of such talent. The variety of writers was amazing. Just hope to read more of them all.

A masterful, resonant collection of wonders

This is a splendid bouquet of wildflowers and orchids-- tender, beautiful, fragile weeds and hybrids; there are moments of exultation and sorrow, some caught with the fastest, most spontaneous strokes, some with precision and care. All are masterful and resonant and they stick in the memory for a long, long time.

Beautifully organized and presented.

A collection of poems and stories certain to stimulate and entertain, to provoke and soothe. As I read the writings of these Alabama women, I was fed a satisfying taste of southern life, both of today and in the past. A must read!

A book for young and old about real women of past/present

I laughed, cried, and identified with many of the poems and stories. I sent copies to my sisters and nieces, all of whom said they read the book in one sitting, couldn't put it down.