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Judi A Rypma
Rapunzel's Hair
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"Who knows if Cinderella slipped so easily
into the rest of her love-fired lifeor if the prince beat her with a switch,
turned her flesh crimson, banished her
to a lifetime of ruddy hands, aching feet
and an ash-strewn stove."--from "Red Shoes" $10 US $14 CANADA 0-9777954-0-3
Judi A. Rypma is the author of 2 previous chapbooks Holy Rocks and Mineral Treasures, both from Finishing Line Press, and has published poems in over 100 journals, most recently in Gargoyle, Florida Review, Nimrod, Pearl, The Atlanta Review, and The Amherst Review.
Judi teaches folklore and mythology at Western Michigan University. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has won the Editor’s Prize from The Chaffin Journal and received Honorable Mention in the Sulphur River Review’s Ocean Prize. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where, with the “helpful” assistance of her basset hound, Anastasia, she is an obsessive-compulsive gardener.
