About the Author

The author of In Your Bones also created the art in this book. Dena Parker Duke said it flowed out of a meditative retreat that she took part in at the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho. She created pieces of art using the Zentangle(R) method to enrich her practice of silence and meditation. Then, she began to see how their shapes and shadows fit right in with her poems, as if they fit together with all their woven twists and turns. Sometimes words are just not enough. The author of In Your Bones also created the art in this book. Dena Parker Duke said it flowed out of a meditative retreat that she took part in at the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho. She created pieces of art using the Zentangle(R) method to enrich her practice of silence and meditation. Then, she began to see how their shapes and shadows fit right in with her poems, as if they fit together with all their woven twists and turns. Sometimes words are just not enough.

Reviews

"Dena Parker Duke's book, In Your Bones, pulls back the curtain on the memory, pain, and self-redemption of a girl grown to womanhood, in order to survive. She taps the marrow of our collective conscience, leading the reader to places of survival, vulnerability, and triumphant anger that heals."Carolyn Bevington, poet from Boise, Idaho.
Her work appears in the Wide Eyed Wonders Graphic Poetry Project, 2019, illustrated poetry magazine series. "Reading In Your Bones is not for the faint-hearted. Dena Parker Duke's courageous journey to wholeness is a triumph of poetic alchemy."Michael Philley, Idaho writer.
His short stories have appeared in The Cabin's Writer's in the Attic series, Boise, Idaho.