A unique collection of poetry and collage

Four sample pages from the work.

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The poems in Bribing The Fortune Teller are fanciful, sad, amusing, storied and comprehensible. Each double-page collaged spread is themed and accompanied by a poem. The entire book has been hand-photographed, hand-assembled and printed on glossy photo paper.

If you wish to own a copy, Ann will autograph one for you.  If you’d like a special inscription, let Ann know how you want it worded.

This book is being offered to you at the author's cost.

Bribing the Fortune Teller may be purchased for $25.00 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling per copy. 

Please send checks to

Ann McGovern,

30 East 62^nd Street

New York, NY 10021

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Praise for Bribing the Fortune Teller

"Dazzling bursts of passion radiate in every poem McGovern writes.  Whether the voice is lusty, or serenely cold in observation, or nakedly shrewd about human aspiration and temptation, the pleasure of her work is intense.  This is a serious poet whose eye casts light on melancholy and whose ear remembers the ecstasy of what has been lost, and gained.  Her first book, illustrated with her own collages, is spectacularly handsome--it blazes with the same passionate coloring of memory as her poems."-- Martin Tucker, Poet, Playwright, Editor of "Confrontation" magazine
   
"The collage component is inspired. It is so much more than a mere background for your poetry; it compliments it and adds a funky, perceptive insight of its own. Though each can stand on its own terms, having seen them together makes it hard for me to easily imagine either the poetry or the collage without the other. They both grow through their remarkable collaboration."--Bill Boughton, Writer & Editor
 
 "What a deep pleasure to turn the pages of Bribing The Fortune Teller--each one a bold vivid splash of color and life with a poem, a line, a phrase that moves and surprises you. I love the Maybe poems--Maybe You Are Here and Maybe Tomorrow. But there's no maybe about what McGovern has accomplished here.--Edward Pomerantz, Screenwriter, Playwright, Novelist
 
 "Your gift of words have the added exoticism of coming from all over the world."
--Valerie Harms, Author