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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="0ada11c3.gif"> <div> <B>Artrageous     Women</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#3366FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Benguiat Frisky ATT" >Autumn 2001</FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04d797f0.jpg" border=0 width="121" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artrageous Women"><U>Home</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> Sarah Zale</div> <bR> <div> Sarah Zale sailed in Mexico from December, 1997 to July, 2000, collecting the biographies of women sailors. Her stories reveal who the women are beyond sailors: daughters and sisters, wives and mothers, grandmothers, and individuals, differing from other women not in that they risk but in <I>how </I>they risk in order to get what they need. </div> <bR> <div> Each story in the finished manuscript titled, <I>Crescent Moons: The Reflections Of Women At Sea,</I> begins with one of Sarah's poems. Three are presented here. As well, the artwork of accomplished artist Cheryl Leslie Smith serves as a creative response to the poems (www.voyageart.com). </div> <bR> <div> The title, <I>Crescent Moons,</I> came to be for two reasons. One, the moon, when full or in crescent slices, is the constant companion of every sailor. Second, Sarah believes all women are crescent moons, waning and waxing, remembering the times they felt full and trying to get back there again. </div> <bR> <div> Sarah teaches creative writing and composition at National University in San Diego and online for www.coffeehouseforwriters.com. Her poem <I>If the moon, if you dance, </I>will preface the book <I>By the Grace of the Sea, </I>by Pat Henry, a solo circumnavigator of the world (McGraw-Hill, 2002). Sarah can be reached <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF6600" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:SarahWrite@aol" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:SarahWrite@aol"><U>here</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>