She Is - Michelle Scally Clarke

Performer and poet Michelle Scally Clarke laid bare her life in her acclaimed first book I Am, which traced her turbulent journey from care, to adoption, to motherhood, to performer. She is picks up from where that book left off and follows her rises and falls and the patterns that appear in her life as she matures and peaks as a woman in her early thirties. She is - a moving walking she-woman ride, for she is an emotion, a passion, a warmth or a loss in every woman. She is - not of me but of we. My sisters, my mothers, my friends and our lovers, our joys and our struggles. She is plays close witness to a life unfolding. Together these poems and autobiographical asides journey through love and lust; through grief and pain, through growing up, of getting closer to understanding the nature of the woman inside.