Marlene’s Publications
Links and Excerpts
~ BOOKS ~
A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey. Simon& Schuster, 1996.
Simple Days: A Journal on What Really Matters. Sorin Books/Ave Maria Press, 2002.
Work In Progress: A book on the archetype of the dark feminine in women and men.
*Excerpt - “Dark Sisters: Kali and the Black Madonna”
~ SOME ARTICLES ~
“Simple Days: A Coda,” The Diarist’s Journal, #3 (Fall 2003)
"Saturating Language with Love: Variations on a Dream," in Wise Women: Reflections
of Women Teaching at Mid-Life, Routledge Press, 2000
"Taking Things Personally: Women, Journal Writing, and Self-Creation," The National
Women's Studies Association Journal, 6.2 (Summer 1994)
“Spinning the Web of Life: Feminism, Ecology, and Christa Wolf.” (with Steven M.
Rosen), The Trumpeter, 7.1 (Winter 1990)
“Journeys of a Pregnant Virgin”: Reflections from abroad
More to be added
This is the creature there has never been.
They never knew it, and yet, none the less
They loved the way it moved, its suppleness
Its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.
Not there, because they loved it, it behaved
As though it were. They always left some space.
And in that clear, unpeopled space they saved
It lightly reared its head, with scarce a trace
Of not being there. They fed it, not with corn,
But only with the possibility
Of being. And that was able to confer
Such strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.
Whitely it stole up to the maid – to be
Within the silver mirror and in her.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus