About the Author:
Delora Shankle French is the youngest of seven siblings raised on sharecropped farms in
Henry County in West Tennessee during the depression. She moved to Texas with her husband and completed a degree in Sociology and Psychology at Texas Christian University
and worked for the American Red Cross and as Executive Director of Planned Parenthood
of Fort Worth during the 1960s. She then worked for Campfire Girls in Temple, Texas in the 1970's. Although Delora Shankle French started writing poetry in 1980, most of the poems selected for this book were written after 1990. She now lives in Nashville,Tennessee.
Henry County in West Tennessee during the depression. She moved to Texas with her husband and completed a degree in Sociology and Psychology at Texas Christian University
and worked for the American Red Cross and as Executive Director of Planned Parenthood
of Fort Worth during the 1960s. She then worked for Campfire Girls in Temple, Texas in the 1970's. Although Delora Shankle French started writing poetry in 1980, most of the poems selected for this book were written after 1990. She now lives in Nashville,Tennessee.
About the Book:
Caught Red Handed In the Act of Being Myself
ISBN 978-1-933912-36-3 $14.95
6x9, 196 pages
"Delora French invites us to come along on her life journey through these wonderfully thoughtful, sensitive and honest poems. We are called to remember our own childhoods, to experience anew the beauty of nature, to deal with our own doubts and fears, and to feel again the joys of being alive and being in relationship with lovers and others who walk beside us. While some of these poems draw on her long struggle with bipolar disorder, they more often put us in touch with the strength and resilience of the human spirit and thus ultimately with the sacred in all of life." Rev. Dr. Dan Rosemergy
ISBN 978-1-933912-36-3 $14.95
6x9, 196 pages
"Delora French invites us to come along on her life journey through these wonderfully thoughtful, sensitive and honest poems. We are called to remember our own childhoods, to experience anew the beauty of nature, to deal with our own doubts and fears, and to feel again the joys of being alive and being in relationship with lovers and others who walk beside us. While some of these poems draw on her long struggle with bipolar disorder, they more often put us in touch with the strength and resilience of the human spirit and thus ultimately with the sacred in all of life." Rev. Dr. Dan Rosemergy