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The Song of Joy and Pain

The Song of Joy and Pain


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Vivienne's book, "The Song of Joy and Pain," is a faithful copy of her gold-leaf, leather-bound hand-written book of her poetry, compiled with the barest minimum of editing. I have added only a dedication, a foreword, and a handful of poems I wrote about her at the end of the book. The poems were written between 1944 (when she was 17) and 1955 (when she was 28, 3 months after the divorce). Vivienne, until the divorce, seemed to have lived an ethereal life, confident in her beauty, poetry, wisdom, and passion. It was difficult for me to find any solid correlation between the poems she wrote and the day-to-day realities of family life. Her earlier poems show a purity, an innocence, a love of beauty, and a belief in God; not a Christian God and not a Jewish God, but a God capable of creating a world in which a poet could live happily. After the divorce, which appeared to have come suddenly and as a shock to her, her poetry shifted from rarified to raw and evidenced bitter disbelief, loneliness, and even thoughts of suicide. When I read my mother's poetry, I am reminded of the poems of Stephen Vincent Benet who, along with my mother, have greatly influenced my own poetry. Mike Stone Raanana, Israel
About the Author: Vivienne was born Vivian Ethel Hamm on November 16, 1927, in Reading Ohio. She went to college at Miami University in Oxford Ohio. She married Alvin W. Stone on June 15, 1946, and had two children, Michael Allen, born March 27, 1947, and Victoria Beth, born October 11, 1951. Al and Vivienne divorced on November 23, 1954. Vivienne subsequently married Irwin Papish, a practicing psychiatrist from Cleveland. Later he was called into the Army and they were transferred to a US base in Panama City. While there, Vivienne and Irv adopted Lisa, two months old, and then Chris, only a few days old, from Costa Rica. A few days before Irv and Vivienne were to return to civilian life in America, she was hit by a car and killed, December 20, 1961, in Panama City. Irv returned to Cleveland with their two adopted children and Vivienne's body.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781721082186
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1721082182
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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