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Jennifer Jean; Cover design or artwork by Jessica Furtado
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Jennifer Jean; Contributions by Julie Shematz; Cover design or artwork by Martha Mccollough
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The love story between Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio is a
timeless tale. Both of these legends had extraordinary careers in
their individual fields, as well as remarkable existences. This
book chronicles each of their lives, from the days before they met,
until that magical night in 1952 when their paths finally crossed.
Their lives would never be the same after that. Though their
marriage lasted for nine months, their love endured beyond those
years and her death in 1962 -- Joe's heart yearned for no one else,
even at his deathbed thirty-seven years after her untimely passing.
This account shares of their love and focuses on their marriage in
1954, and their trip to Japan and her trip to Korea, during the
nearly one month time span that the couple was in the Far East
together. The author's collections of rare and unpublished
photographs (some never-before-seen), especially from their time in
Japan and Marilyn's in Korea (released in tandem with the sixtieth
anniversary of their trip to the Far East), as well as memorabilia
from both of the stars from the author's collection, are treasures
that accompany this story. This book weaves in elements about
baseball, entertainment, the military, the tragedies of stardom,
and above all, the love Marilyn and Joe shared. The story told here
unveils other characters in the casts of both of their lives,
including interviews with family members of Marilyn Monroe who run
the "Marilyn Monroe Family" website, headed by Marilyn's second
cousin, Jason Edward Kennedy. This book begins to also debunk the
myths and propaganda about the life and death of Marilyn Monroe.
Additionally, controversy within Joe's final days is also explored.
"Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio - Love In Japan, Korea &
Beyond,"" is the first book in the series endorsed by
MarilynMonroeFamily.com, the website run by the relatives of
William Marion Hogan, Marilyn Monroe's great-uncle.
"The Fool takes us to this basic truth: that when we feel most
unloved and unlovable, we enter the space of endings and
beginnings, the space where we must decide whether or not to
believe. This collection of poetry is thus an article of faith,
poems that dare us-in unflinching terms-to believe. Jean's poetic
emerges in twists of language that hurtle into dangerous places,
steep falls and banked curves that bring us back to consider life's
vital air and light." Afaa Michael Weaver, The Government of Nature
"Jennifer Jean's The Fool asks us, 'Aren't we supposed to see after
time spent in the dark?' And blessedly, the answer is yes: so much
life goes on to breathe and dwell in this exceptional debut
collection: muggy men, hornets, vespers, '...the eyes of these
poems black like beetles.' The Fool gives us a world where '...we
need every red-engine knell to slumber...and then we could wake
stoked to survive.' This is a poetry that does more than survive in
our collective memory: it flashes, it burns." Aimee
Nezhukumatathil, Lucky Fish "When you open Jennifer Jean's new book
The Fool, be ready to travel with her. The title comes from an
archetypal figure in the Tarot cards, one typically imagined as a
wanderer, someone open to life, needing freedom but perhaps
buffeted by it too, a figure not beyond fear, but not afraid of the
dark either. These are also the virtues you'll find in Jennifer
Jean's poems. They travel back to a hardscrabble childhood, and
forward through a young woman's coming of age. She also takes us
inward via dreams and shape-shifting visions, charting thereby some
of the wilder and more difficult areas of the psyche. At each turn
of the journey, we accompany a person in the process of acquiring
hard-earned and utterly worthwhile spiritual wisdom. In effect,
what we witness in these vivid poems is the growth of a soul." Fred
Marchant, Full Moon Boat and The Looking House
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