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In the Needle, A Woman Susan Michele Coronel deftly weaves together strands of challenging life experiences, including the complexities of the mother-daughter bond, divorce, family losses, and her Jewish ancestors' traumatic past. Through captivating imagery and a lyrical imagination that accompanies us from childhood through adolescence and adulthood, In the Needle, A Woman culminates in the speaker's life as an independent woman with her own desires and needs. Through it all, the healing power of poetry helps her to mend the torn fabric of her life and to find purpose, creating a durable framework that bridges generations, traditions, and norms. In ""Was My Mother the Ocean or a Rainstorm?"" the speaker writes: ""Pain nourishes me because it contains/seeds of goodness. I put on a blindfold/ & keep still. Now I don't need/ to choose. I am not afraid.""

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A two-time Pushcart nominee, Susan Michele Coronel has had poems published in numerous journals including MOM Egg Review, Pedestal, Nixes Mate Review, Redivider, TAB Journal, One Art, and Spillway 29. In 2023, she won the Massachusetts Poetry Festival's First Poem Award. Versions of this book were named finalists for Harbor Editions' Laureate Prize (2021), the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2023), the C&R Press Poetry Award (2023), and the Louise Bogan Award (2024). In 2021 she received a Parent Poet Fellowship for Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing's summer conference. Ms. Coronel holds an M.S. Ed. in Applied Linguistics from the City University of New York (Queens College) and a B.A. in English from Indiana-University Bloomington. She lives in New York City.

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