About Anna Marie Laforest

The only thing Anna Marie loves more than reading and writing is listening to opera singers (and eating chocolate, of course). Her essays, poems, stories, and theater reviews have been published in literary journals from Austin, Texas to D.C. to Portland Oregon and Melbourne, Australia.

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Goddess Stories: Volume 1 Jun 7, 2016

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Mythology meets magical realism in these fresh stories of goddesses discovering their sacred callings. Persephone dons a black leather jacket over her flowery dress and sets out to find what is “real.” Inuit Sedna’s fingers turn into fishes and seals when her father chops at her knuckles in fear. Glispa leaves her Navaho grandmothers in order to take a shamanic journey. Aztec Xochiquetzal, queen of the flowers, reappears as our Lady of Guadalupe. The Egyptian goddess Nut who holds up the sky is befriended by scarabs who alter the course of the Nile. Iris has a crush on Morpheus, lazy god of dreams, but comes to her senses and moves to the American Southwest. A young girl is taught by animals to carry fire in skulls, discovers her parentage, and becomes the Baba-Yaga. Pele learns to control her fiery temper (and the volcano), but not before losing the love of her life. And five more stories.

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Stabat Mater and other Poems Aug 27, 2016

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Lyrical and narrative poetry from 1996 to 2016, this collection is beautiful and lively, and includes the modern epic poem "Stabat Mater" based on the interior odyssey of a child and her mother.

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Little Comedies about Death Jun 21, 2016

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16 characters find their afterlives more intricately entwined with their personalities than they had imagined. Humorous, lyrical, and based on contemporary and metaphysical theories, these stories bring the foibles of human nature into the realm of the “Just Ending.”
A paleontologist’s wife, who is a closet collector herself, discovers that “you have to take it with you” in the afterlife. An armchair traveler melts through a wormhole in a church in Italy. A handful of people incarnate over and over, taking turns as lover, deceiver, warrior, friend. A timid woman’s soul adds another version of herself each time she is frightened, and they nearly collide. A stonecutter is fought over by Saturn and Jupiter, then released. A master chocolatier dies in a seeming earthquake and walks through the rubble only to find the river Lethe. And ten more.

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Breath by Breath: Growing Up during My Mother's Polio Years, 1954-1967 Apr 30, 2016

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BREATH BY BREATH by Anna Marie Laforest is a daughter’s memoir of care-giving to a mother with deep limb and respiratory paralysis, from 1954 to 1967 in Detroit.
At the age of four, she walks through a hospital basement of rubber pipes, duct tape, and oil to take the service elevator up to the polio floor, and later must battle strange housekeepers, inept nurses, breathing machines and suction apparatus. She helps her mother “draw on” her lipstick in preparation for visits from a dwindling number of friends, including a “brainwashed” priest.
In a contrast of beauty and frustrations, the girl dreams under the pear tree in her grandmother’s garden, tears at her clothes and bites washcloths, but also bites backyard tomatoes, tasting the metallic ring of city earth. She makes up fairy stories for her little sister and finds a landing place for her imagination in the white lace and silver paten liturgy of the church. It is a childhood of deciding what is of value in a world where one’s mother would die any day. It is a fearful and tangible dance with death.

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