Ebook {Epub PDF} Learning to Swim by Ann Turner

Learning to Swim: A Memoir. [TURNER, Ann.] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Learning to Swim: A Memoir.  · Learning to swim. First published in Subjects. Child sexual abuse, Juvenile poetry, Poetry, Sexually abused children, American poetry, Mothers and daughters, Sexual abuse, Pages: Genre-of this book is fiction. Author Bio-Ann Turner began her writing career as a poet and has subsequently published more than 35 books. Learning to swim is about how she had a painful, silent childhood. In the book it also brings meaning of how she has come out of her painful childhood and made something of herself.

Learning To Swim|Ann Turner, Postcards From Pluto|Loreen Leedy, Business Laws Of Saudi Arabia|N. H. Karam, Open Office Basic: An Introduction|Prof James Steinberg. Learning to Swim by Ann Turner is a short yet powerful collection of poems which details a troubling summer in the childhood of the www.doorway.ru poems collectively tell the true story of Turner's experience with abuse as a young child. On a summer vacation with her family, Annie becomes a victim of sexual abuse by Kevin, an older boy in town. In episodic free verse, Turner tells of the summer she was raped repeatedly by a neighbor boy. The six-year-old narrator relates both joyful and horrifying scenes in short lines of three or fewer beats: "the motor purrs and drips, / we speak softly / as if in church," "and I am cutting you / into little pieces / that I will bury / in the meadow / outside / when there is no moon / and no.

Culled from the real-life experiences of poet Ann Turner, "Learning to Swim" tells the story of a young girl on a family vacation who is molested by an older boy. Each page has a separate poem that explores her feelings at a particular time. The actual events are not related. The only questionable language is a mention to "private parts". Ann Turner's lyrical Learning to Swim will resonate with any adult or teenager who knows the shame and confusion of sexual molestation. Her memories of a family summer vacation keep coming back "like a skunk dog / on the porch / whining to get in." For Turner, telling her story to the world is what sets that skunk dog running. Learning to swim. First published in Subjects. Child sexual abuse, Juvenile poetry, Poetry, Sexually abused children, American poetry, Mothers and daughters, Sexual abuse, Children's poetry, American.