Patching Me Together

by Margaret A. Harrell

A new poetry book by the author of the critically acclaimed Particle Pinata Poems. "Margaret Ann Harrell stands in direct lineage with the poet prophets of old while simultaneously being a modern cutting edge experimental poet. She steps off the edge and into the unknown. In her own distinctly original poetic voice, she performs a whirling dance with the numinous creative forces of the universe, with Rumi and Blake and Rilke and Yeats. PATCHING ME TOGETHER is the work of a master. I can't recommend it highly enough."-Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate

62 pages, Hardcover

Published October 15, 2022

About the author

The latest of Harrell's books is "The 'Hell's Angels' Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic," available at the publisher's website, Norfolk Press. Harrell was 3 times a Fellow at MacDowell Colony for artists. Marrying a Belgian poet, she lived in Morocco, then took a sharp turn into spiritual growth. In Zurich she studied at the C. G. Jung Institute and had a dramatic "Confrontation with the Self," or as Jung termed it, "Confrontation with the Unconscious." Her former perspective on reality burst at the seams to absorb the jolts in consciousness that followed. Returning to live in Raleigh, NC in late 2002, she began to teach light body courses and professionally display her cloud photography. Having been Hunter Thompson's copy editor on "Hell's Angels" at Random House, the book that first sky rocketed him to fame, she focused on his letters to her when she began to bring out a four-volume "Keep This Quiet!" memoir series in 2011. That book was titled, "Keep This Quiet! My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert." "Keep THIS Quiet Too!" followed, and then "Keep This Quiet! III: Initiations." The latest volume was "Keep This Quiet!" IV: "More Initiations" (April 27, 2016). It is reissued, heavily updated, with much new material that built on top of the earlier edition. The new edition is out March 21, retitled "Ancient Secrets Revealed." What are the secrets? Wisdom teachings that emerged through initiations.