Born-Child - Anderheggen, Carol

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Résumé :
Born-Child is a memoir in poetry which focuses on the dual status of the adopted child. Adopted children live in two worlds even in a successful adoption. There are always the biological parents and the adoptive parents which in many cases are not at odds. But for the child, especially the child adopted past infancy, there can be a struggle for identity. This book of poems reveals the phases and emotions of that journey. How to become a person with two sets of parents, how to reconcile divided loyalties, and ultimately how to live as a whole person are here illuminated in thirty-three poems. And, in the end, the author arrives at reconciliation and is able to touch earth just as the last poem describes.

Biographie:
Carol Anderheggen is active in the Ocean State Poets of Rhode Island, both as their web designer and as a practitioner of poetry outreach. She has published in regional journals such as Anemone, The Great Swamp Gazette, Newport Life, and Northeast Journal and served on the staff of The Frost Festival of Poetry, Franconia, NH for seven years. Her first chapbook, Writing Down Cancer, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2015. Carol Anderheggen, author of Born-Child, attended and worked at the Frost Festival of Poetry for seven years. She served as docent for the museum hours at Robert Frost's home in Franconia, NH, assisted the director with book sales and edited the annual attendee anthology of readings. As secretary and web-master of the organization, Ocean State Poets, in Rhode Island, Carol created and maintains the website, www.oceanstatepoets.org for the organization. As an OSP member Carol has participated in area readings and nurtured a public library writing group with another poet, Heather Sullivan. Carol and Heather have worked together for seven years in a Salve Regina University community service class which pairs developmentally handicapped adults with Salve students. The class has produced two anthologies of poetry, a DVD of stage presentations highlighting community students' abilities, and several group poems presented orally at the end of the school year.