From: Tom Chao (at HarperCollins)
Subject: Announcing A Night Without Armor by Jewel (HarperCollins)
To: webmaster@endor.org


Dear Web Publisher:

As someone with more than just an "everyday" interest in Jewel's life 
and work, you probably already know that Jewel is planning to publish 
a book of poems.  HarperCollins Publishers would like to offer you and 
your web readers a sneak peek at A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR, Jewel's first 
and only official book of poetry, before the book hits bookstores on 
May 19th! (hardcover, $15.00, ISBN 0-06-019198-8).  

These beautiful and inspiring poems come from Jewel's private 
journals.  Feel free to use the five poems below on your site.  Please 
make sure to include the complete credit that follows the text.

We also have a sample audio clip from Jewel's spoken word recording 
available from HarperAudio (CD or cassette), of five different poems 
which you may link.  To link the sound file (in RealAudio format), 
please use this address: http://www.hc.com/jewel/jewel.ram
The clip is 3:59 minutes long.  (To obtain RealAudio software and 
information, go to http://www.real.com/)  Again, please make sure the 
complete credit is included on your site:

From A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR: Poems by Jewel.  Copyright (c) 1998 by 
Jewel Kilcher.  Published by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.  All 
rights reserved.

We have a page on our website about the book which you may link: 
http://www.harpercollins.com/jewel/  It includes ordering information.

More news to come...

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I Miss Your Touch

I miss your touch
     all taciturn
like the slow migration of birds
nesting momentarily
upon my breast
     then lifting
silver and quick--
sabotaging the landscape
with their absence

my skin silent without
         their song
a thirsty pool of patient flesh

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Insecurity

you don't call
I check again
I become uneasy--
  is this a frame?
Suddenly I'm not so sure
I check my sources
each conversation becomes a crumb
how easily I'm led
how stupid I've been
to believe
you could be
loving me
you who can not be seduced
by anything other than
the temperance
of need
  each one facilitating the next
and suddenly I see my place
the phone rings
you say hello
but I don't believe you

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I Say to You Idols

I say to you idols
of carefully studied
disillusionment

And you worshipers
who find beauty
in only fallen things

that the greatest
Grace
we can aspire to
is the strength
to see the wounded
walk with the forgotten
and pull ourselves
from the screaming
blood of our losses
to fight on
undaunted
all the more

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It Has Been Long

It has been
long and
Bony since
your willing
ways since
those thirstful
days of
summer nights
and Burning Beds

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As a Child I Walked

As a child I walked
with noisy fingers
along the hemline
of so many meadows
back home

Green fabric
stretched out
   shy earth
   shock of sky

I'd sit on logs like pulpits
listen to the sermon
of sparrows
and find god in Simplicity
there amongst the dandelion
and thorn

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Again, please make sure to include the complete credit with the text:

From A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR: Poems by Jewel.  Copyright (c) 1998 by 
Jewel Kilcher.  Reprinted by arrangement with HarperCollins 
Publishers, Inc.  All rights reserved.