Take a Rib

<p>Take a Rib The Arc of a Life in Poems</p><p></p><p>In this timeline and collection Diane Lilli returns to the poems of her</p><p>youth with transformative imagery that tracks her lifetime of writing</p><p>poems landing in 2025.</p><p>Beginning with her first poem written at eight years of age the author</p><p>continues to share a real-time body of work from different moments</p><p>of her life as a fantastical poetic memoir.</p><p>Every poem is organized in chronological order and separated by</p><p>distinct phases of her life.</p><p><em>Take a Rib</em> is a wild ride through the stages of life as seen through the</p><p>lines of a poet from the freedom of surreal literary beginnings to the</p><p>bittersweet world as it changes for everyone.</p><p>Saying goodbye again she writes I remind you the most beautiful</p><p>gardens grow inside fences.</p>