Book Cover Painting Art: Sun Shining Through by Eric Wallis
Earth-Marked Like You
Poems by Mary Dezember
Published by Sunstone Press, 2011.
““Mary Dezember’s new collection is enormous in scope, technical skill and experiment, and surprise. An enormous achievement. Poems like ‘Skin Traveler’ are sudden master poems that surprise and please: ‘Your body is a map of everywhere I want to go./Yet I can see none of these places are on earth./With you, I become otherworldly, a skin traveler. . .” Above all her precinct is love. With the variety of Sappho’s solitudes, sensualities, and ironic humor, she gives us her galaxies and moon, in movement like everything on earth, before her observing and transforming eye. Read her and be transformed.”
““Dezember’s work and artistry are defined by her search for soul and her use of poems to speak on her soul’s behalf. The result is edgy, raw, and sensual . . .Despite her losses, Dezember remains an optimist, testing her theory about the existence of soul-love again and again.””
Book Cover Painting Art: Hope by Steve Dezember II
“Still Howling is the drumbeat we’ve been waiting for in unsettling political times. Mary’s work will inspire you to forge onwards in the long march towards positive social change.””
“…her lines simmering and ultimately erupting like a geyser, the reader taken on an exhilarating ride.””
Still Howling
Poems by Mary Dezember
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
“Still Howling” and “Endnote to Still Howling” are First Place Winner of the Best Beat Poem Contest, 2016, sponsored by Beatlick Press.
“I see the best souls of my sex thrive despite the madness, defiant Aphrodites rising above the sea, naked in their wakefulness, determined to love in the charge of night and the terror of the day . . .”
With language both piercing and uplifting, Mary Dezember explores the importance of creative expression and of finding a voice in hurtful or oppressive situations and to question hegemony – with the realization that the embracing of life happens through the alchemy of forgiveness.
Graced with cover art painted by her nephew, Steve Dezember II, using his wheelchair, the book includes poems about or in tribute to courageous life-embracing innovators, such as Steve and his wife, Hope, Allen Ginsberg, Rosalind Franklin, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
The title poem “Still Howling” and the poem “Endnote to Still Howling” are an homage to Allen Ginsberg and to his poems “Howl” and “Footnote to Howl,” in celebration of their publication in 1956 and a tribute to his publisher, City Lights Publishers, and to Allen’s influences, namely Walt Whitman, but, as Dezember states in this collection, “mostly to Allen and what he gave us – the right to howl.”
“Still Howling” and “Endnote to Still Howling” are First Place Winner of the Best Beat Poem Contest, 2016, sponsored by Beatlick Press
They were first published on October 5, 2016
in the journal Cacti Fur.
(Click on Cacti Fur to take you to these two poems.)
Cover art and design by nirbheek on Fiverr.
Wild Conviction
A Novel by Mary Dezember
Published by Brilliant Moon Press,
July 30, 31, August 1, 2023
““Mary Dezember has created a tour de force featuring a strong young woman who displays integrity, independence, empathy, and a commitment to equality— a necessary role model for today’s world and any other.””
GrandMama’s Letter to Twilight
holds the two secrets that change Twilight’s life forever.
Yes, this letter, which Twilight opens in the “opening scene” of the novel, is secret to all but her eyes…until Chapter Three.
Chapter Three is the contents of the letter.
What does this seal mean? A doe under the sweeping branches of a tree….to find out, order Wild Conviction.
Rose Antebellum Carpetbag Clutch with Clues
(a small version of Twilight’s or Ember’s antebellum carpetbag for travel)
Black Antebellum Carpetbag Clutch with Clues
(a small version of Twilight’s or Ember’s antebellum carpetbag for travel)
Gallatin’s Wallet with Clues
“Vintage-style” 19th century currency wallet, which Gallatin’s carries. Men looped it onto their belts, then tucked it between their torso and belt.
Clue items included with Gallatin’s Wallet
19th century currency wallet
This is an actual 19th century currency wallet, just so you can see what one looks like.
It is not a gift. This photo is just for informational purposes. I used it to create Gallatin’s wallet.
Sisterhood of Gifts (and Mary Dezember) Logo Laptop Messenger Bag
The logo on this computer bag is the Doe and Tree logo of the Sisterhood of Gifts (read the novel to find out what that is) and is also my author logo.
Custom Printed Briefcase
Made of Strong 600D Polyester
Extra strong Nylon Zippers
Adjustable Shoulder Strap
Carrying Handles
Front Pocket
16W x 12H x 3D in.
Logo heather grey racerback tank top
If you’d like to buy one of these shirts with my logo, please contact me.
Mary with poetry books and logo tank top.