the scorched earth

the scorched earth is Dora E. McQuaid's groundbreaking collection of poems about her journey from victimization to survivorship, through healing from a history of both sexual and domestic violence into empowerment and advocacy as an award-winning poet, activist, speaker and teacher. The audio companion, the scorched earth: spoken, is a studio recording of Dora performing all 35 poems from the 2015 Expanded, Second Edition of the book, with seven additional poems in this 2015 Edition as compared to the original edition released in 1999.This Expanded, Second Edition of the scorched earth includesThe Foreword by Eve Ensler, award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues,the scorched earth: spoken Audio Companion of Dora performing all 35 poems in the collection,An in-depth, comprehensive Discussion and Study Guide designed for use in a variety of 
settings to explore the issues of both domestic and sexual violence,A listing of International Resources for Survivors of both forms of violence and 7 new poems since the original 1999 edition of this collection.Poems from this collection are used nationally in outreach and rehabilitation programs for survivors and perpetrators of violence, as well as law enforcement training and college and university courses. Dora self-published this book in 1999, with the compact disc companion being released in 2002 at the request of the cofounder and then-director of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Susan Kelly-Dreiss, for use in training programs she was facilitating across the state of Pennsylvania.Please visit doramcquaid.com