Picking Clean the Bones poems by Sally Atkins visual art by Marianne Suggs

978-1-887905-03-9 1-887905-03-0 $18.95 paperback 60 pages full-color photographs & illustrations Parkway Publishers

This work is a collaboration of word and image, of word as visual image and of visual image as a conjurer of words. It is a collaboration of two women who have shared many aspects of their lives in parallel time as mothers, wives, and teachers. Here is an artist whose work becomes political, a therapeutic role to the culture. Here is a therapist poet whose work has shaped itself toward the beauty of the personal/mystical. about the author and illustrator Sally Atkins is a poet, dancer, and ritualist. She is a Professor of Human Development and Psychological Counseling at Appalachian State University. Marianne Stevens Suggs is a mixed media artist who has exhibited nationally and regionally in juried and invitational exhibitions. She is a Professor of Art at Appalachian State University.