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COMING SOON from Brightspring Books: The Day that Changed Everything
Given Time: A Mother-Daughter Cancer Memoir
Given Time: A Mother-Daughter Cancer Memoir
This book, written in call-and-response style, explores Christine's mother’s cancer journey, and her own. As Vivian Shipley says: “Given Time asks a question without an answer: How can you shield your heart? What will endure, like this powerful collection of poems, is the will to live, to find joy that beats within each human heart."
Finishing Line Press, 2025 | Buy this book
Beneath the Steps: A Writing Guide for
Beneath the Steps: A Writing Guide for
12-Step Recovery
12-Step Recovery
This book weaves Christine's life in 12-step recovery with poems and prompts for others who wish to use poetry-writing as a healing process. John Fox, founder of The Institute for Poetic Medicine, says “Making that [necessary] journey with Beneath the Steps is a way, with your own raw and vulnerable poem-making at hand, to each day, treasure yourself.”
From Flying Horse Press, 2019 | Buy this book on Amazon
Stirred, Not Shaken
Stirred, Not Shaken
"Christine’s poems are image-drenched and information-filled, by turns highly sensual and anecdotal. She desires, wants, and relishes everything, including food, drink, the works of other poets, animals, fish. . . and most especially the sounds of words themselves. The poems are decidedly tactile. The poet dances in internal rhyme. May Stirred, not Shaken take you, stir you, and, despite its title, shake you as it has me," says Dick Allen, Connecticut State Poet Laureate
(2010-2015).
From Five Oaks Press, 2016 | Read Interview with Christine Beck and Lois Harrod
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I'm Dating Myself
I'm Dating Myself
These whimsical poems explore the fantastic: from flying with a man in a glider, to an ode to the avocado, to “De Minimis,” what happens when a button on a man’s cuff catches on the watch chain on a woman’s watch. You can hear the title poem under Readings/Events.
From Dancing Girl Press and Studio | Buy this book
Blinding Light
Blinding Light
The Madonna of Justice, a painting by Bernardo Strozzi, intrigued Christine and helped her realize how some of the threads of her life weave together. The result of Christine's insight is this compelling collection of poems centered on complicated mother daughter relationships, questions about organized religion, and an interest in the law.
From Grayson Books, 2013 | Buy this book on Amazon
Where Flowers Bloom,
Poems of Elizabeth Park
Where Flowers Bloom,
Poems of Elizabeth Park
From Grayson Books
Everyone Says Hello
Everyone Says Hello
From Grayson Books
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