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Chicken and in Love
Natalie Goldberg quotes and poems.
- GenresPoetry
58 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1979
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About the author
Natalie Goldberg
57 books1,258 followersNatalie Goldberg lived in Brooklyn until she was six, when her family moved out to Farmingdale, Long Island, where her father owned the bar the Aero Tavern. From a young age, Goldberg was mad for books and reading, and especially loved Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe , which she read in ninth grade. She thinks that single book led her eventually to put pen to paper when she was twenty-four years old. She received a BA in English literature from George Washington University and an MA in humanities from St. John's University.
Goldberg has painted for as long as she has written, and her paintings can be seen in Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World and Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings. They can also be viewed at the Ernesto Mayans Gallery on Canyon Road in Sante Fe.
A dedicated teacher, Goldberg has taught writing and literature for the last thirty-five years. She also leads national workshops and retreats, and her schedule can be accessed via her website: nataliegoldberg.com
In 2006, she completed with the filmmaker Mary Feidt a one-hour documentary, Tangled Up in Bob, about Bob Dylan's childhood on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. The film can be obtained on Amazon or the website tangledupinbob.com.
Goldberg has been a serious Zen practitioner since 1974 and studied with Katagiri Roshi from 1978 to 1984.
Goldberg has painted for as long as she has written, and her paintings can be seen in Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World and Top of My Lungs: Poems and Paintings. They can also be viewed at the Ernesto Mayans Gallery on Canyon Road in Sante Fe.
A dedicated teacher, Goldberg has taught writing and literature for the last thirty-five years. She also leads national workshops and retreats, and her schedule can be accessed via her website: nataliegoldberg.com
In 2006, she completed with the filmmaker Mary Feidt a one-hour documentary, Tangled Up in Bob, about Bob Dylan's childhood on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. The film can be obtained on Amazon or the website tangledupinbob.com.
Goldberg has been a serious Zen practitioner since 1974 and studied with Katagiri Roshi from 1978 to 1984.
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February 5, 2016
I came across this book in a used book store in Iowa City and I fell in love with Natalie's free spirit and hippie chick outlook on life that permeated the poems. Plus, I thought her picture at the back was really cute.....she was definitely someone I fantasized about meeting someday.
Years later, she came out with "Writing Down the Bones" and the rest is history. She became a best-seller whose books about writing were always more popular than her one novel, which I was a bit disappointed in.
In a subsequent correspondence with Ms.Goldberg I learned that this book, published in a small edition by the small Holy Cow! Press, is pretty rare and worth some bucks. I hope someday to get it inscribed.
By the way, Iowa City is one fantastic place for used bookstores. I totally recommend it to all bibliophiles. The presence of The Iowa Writers Workshop insures the highest quality of books in circulation.
Years later, she came out with "Writing Down the Bones" and the rest is history. She became a best-seller whose books about writing were always more popular than her one novel, which I was a bit disappointed in.
In a subsequent correspondence with Ms.Goldberg I learned that this book, published in a small edition by the small Holy Cow! Press, is pretty rare and worth some bucks. I hope someday to get it inscribed.
By the way, Iowa City is one fantastic place for used bookstores. I totally recommend it to all bibliophiles. The presence of The Iowa Writers Workshop insures the highest quality of books in circulation.
February 25, 2008
Natalies's first book and notoriously difficult to find as it has been out of print for some time. Fun to read her early poems.
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