A Public Secret
After twelve years as an elementary educator, my dormant yet smoldering
passions for both music and writing began to resurface and prompt me to make a
somewhat intimidating career shift. I am grateful to God for his loving, ever faithful
guidance and presence through what has been a worthwhile leap of faith into writing.
The roots of my developing perceptions of self and the world were uprooted
and inextricably implanted in the soil of West Africa by my father, a West Virginia coal
miner’s son who served as a missionary for more than twenty years in Liberia. It
was there I attained a deep and indelible insight into the world as it truly is without
the blinders of complacency we in America so often wear.
“A Public Secret” is an anthology of poetry which paints a lyrical portrait of
the period just prior to, and following Liberia’s first coup d'état in 1980 when I was
a student at, Cuttington University College...a social, political and cultural microcosm
that nurtured sons and daughters from the coastal villages of Cape Palmas to the
Executive Mansion of Monrovia. It was a virtual melting pot of all that was sweet
and all that was bitter from the essence of the country.
This online collection is a prelude to the forthcoming novel of the same title.
It contains intimate reflections of
love...innocent and forbidden,
allegiance... esteemed and forsaken
amidst
peace and infinite possibilities and revolution and devastating retribution.
passions for both music and writing began to resurface and prompt me to make a
somewhat intimidating career shift. I am grateful to God for his loving, ever faithful
guidance and presence through what has been a worthwhile leap of faith into writing.
The roots of my developing perceptions of self and the world were uprooted
and inextricably implanted in the soil of West Africa by my father, a West Virginia coal
miner’s son who served as a missionary for more than twenty years in Liberia. It
was there I attained a deep and indelible insight into the world as it truly is without
the blinders of complacency we in America so often wear.
“A Public Secret” is an anthology of poetry which paints a lyrical portrait of
the period just prior to, and following Liberia’s first coup d'état in 1980 when I was
a student at, Cuttington University College...a social, political and cultural microcosm
that nurtured sons and daughters from the coastal villages of Cape Palmas to the
Executive Mansion of Monrovia. It was a virtual melting pot of all that was sweet
and all that was bitter from the essence of the country.
This online collection is a prelude to the forthcoming novel of the same title.
It contains intimate reflections of
love...innocent and forbidden,
allegiance... esteemed and forsaken
amidst
peace and infinite possibilities and revolution and devastating retribution.
About the Author
Monica Horton-Knuckles
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