A new book by Philomene Long

Beat generation Poet five years behind
convent walls before her escape into
the world of angel hipsters and Zen
saints.

About Memoirs of a Nun on Fire Jim
Carlson says: “Philomene Long’s prose
is darkly charged and cinematic, a
prison movie full of faces Fellini would
be startled by.... Though dark, the
writing is appropriately wide-eyed as
well. Philomene has succeeded in
sharing “one long episode of shock.”

“She entered the convent as a rather
wild teenager and became a rather wild
nun.”
                                                          –
Jack Foley Poet-Writer- KPFA Radio
     Available August 17, 2001
156 pages, 198 pages of photographs
RAVEN PRODUCTIONS PRESS
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