Mantras From The Great Void

"I have known John (Janice Josephine's birth name) Carney as a person with an enjoyable sense of humor, but did not know, until reading, his capacity for surprise and his unassuming knack of making the unhistorical, and unelite - unforgettable. It is a pleasure to introduce readers to it."
Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. Author of "Achilles in Vietnam": Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character; from his forward to Janice's "One Heart One Mind" A memoir of her tour of Vietnam.
"I know of no other collection of writings that offers the intimacy and insight in how this sort of life FEELS. Janice, in heartfelt and pain blank verse conveys the loneliness of growing up with a dark secret, that do to no fault of her own, she has lived with. ----- Her poetry speaks for thousands who lack the voice, desire, or courage to expose such inner pain, and finally joy. "
Dr. Milton (Mickey) Diamond Ph. D. Director, the Pacific Center for Sex and Society at the University of Hawaii. From his foreword to Janice's "Purple Hearts and Silver Stars" Poems, essays short stories and rants direct from a trans-woman's soul