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    Grabbing The World In: A Collection of Poems
    Grabbing The World In: A Collection of Poems
    Grabbing The World In: A Collection of Poems
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    Grabbing The World In: A Collection of Poems

    By Judith Donner Hancock, Doreen Hancock and Paul Hancock

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    It was cleaning time, boxes of paper and old technology long out
    used. Most items weren't worth keeping, destined for the
    dumpster, despite some regret when trashing what you have held
    for years, far worse if it had meaning and more so when it was a
    parents' affection in your hand.

    The poems were difficult to read, faded on browning paper but
    wanting to be kept. Starting, working slowly, typing words into
    the computer, helped by my spouse, some poems were revolutions,
    others just telling me it was time to address this task.

    This volume is for the late Doreen Hancock who gave life, far
    more than could ever be returned.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJudith Donner Hancock
    Release dateMay 23, 2016
    ISBN9781311475497
    Grabbing The World In: A Collection of Poems
    Author

    Judith Donner Hancock

    A native New Yorker, Judith Donner Hancock has been published in Adoption Today, Boston Literary Magazine, Buffalo Spree Magazine, Jewish Affairs, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Jus/Write and Women’s Monologues Vol. II. Her plays include Happy Endings, Waiting for the World, The Last Buddha, and Computer Madness.

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      Grabbing The World In - Judith Donner Hancock

      grabbing the world in

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2016

      All Rights Reserved

      ISBN-10:

      0-9895092-3-0

      ISBN-13:

      978-0-9895092-3-7

      FIRST EDITION

      Graphics and Cover Design by

      PHGRAPHICS

      Each Author is the sole copyright owner of the work, and retains all rights to the work except for these expressly granted to SP Publisher in this Agreement. The Work cannot be reused without permission. (Note: Work is defined as those poems edited by Judith Donner Hancock for this anthology.

      To the extent a separate copyright attaches to the Anthology as a collective work, SP Publisher is the copyright owner of any such copyright in the Anthology as a collective Work.

      All Work (poems, artwork and related materials) in this Anthology are sole ownership of SP Publisher and its authors (Defined as: Judith D Hancock and Paul F Hancock) and Work cannot be reused without permission.

      grabbing the world in

      a collection of poems

      by

      Doreen Hancock

      Judith Donner Hancock

      Paul F Hancock

      Edited By

      Judith Donner Hancock

      New York, New York

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      NATURE

      ON PRAYER AND DEATH

      FAMILY PLEAS

      LOVE AND EROS

      GRABBING THE WORLD IN

      INDEX OF POEMS

      Introduction

      It was cleaning time, boxes of paper and old technology long out used. Most items weren’t worth keeping, destined for the dumpster, despite some regret when trashing what you have held for years, far worse if it had meaning and more so when it was a parents’ affection in your hand.

      The poems were difficult to read, faded on browning paper but wanting to be kept. Starting, working slowly, typing words into the computer, helped by my spouse, some poems were revolutions, others just telling me it was time to address this task.

      It only made sense to ask, should I put them together with our own poems. If you read this, you have the answer. It was work, it was skill and it was love that made this

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