Diana Raab's Books
Apr.12.2012
Poet Diana M. Raab travels to the heart of Africa with her family to experience the beauty and fascination of another world. During her safari, she observes the distress, the delight, and the dignity of the humans and animals who live there and parallels them to her own quest for health. She has documented her observations in this poignant collection, Listening to Africa. Susan...
Feb.01.2012
Writers on the Edge offers a range of essays, memoirs and poetry written by major contemporary authors who bring fresh insight into the dark world of addiction, from drugs and alcohol, to sex, gambling and food. Editors Diana Raab and James Brown have assembled an array of talented and courageous writers who share their stories with heartbreaking honesty as they share their...
Jun.01.2010
Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable cancer--multiple myeloma. The book includes the author's...
Jan.31.2010
"Diana Raab... has done such a sensitive job of gathering these diverse, eloquent, and experienced voices and encouraging their thoughtful, heartbreaking, rambunctious, free flights of testimony and speculation into being. Freedom is a frequent theme in these pages. The freedom to try out things, to write clumsy sentences when no one is looking, to be unfair, immature, even to be...
Jan.01.2010
Personal Essay called “Personal Growth Through Breast Cancer.” from the Anthology: Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing.
Oct.31.2009
Today, thirty percent of all pregnancies are designated high-risk, unlike years ago when this book was first released. This core of this book was originally released in 1987 under the title, "Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant: A Guide to High-Risk Pregnancies," which was a pioneer of its time. Now, more than twenty years later, the book has been vastly updated. Raab, now...
Sep.24.2009
"The Guilt Gene, Diana Raab's second book of poetry, has the straight-forward confessional tone that distinguishes her best work whether in prose or poetry. Eschewing high flying metaphor and dressed up formality, she confines her subject matter to her inner life and her journal-keeping voice and makes her poems through an emphasis on the line. Her poetry does not pretend to...
Aug.31.2008
A collection of poetry dedicated to journal-keeper Anais Nin who has been a great inspriation to poet Diana Raab. All the poems were honed from the poet's notebook. Her poetry has been described as concrete and accessible.
Sep.01.2007
Regina is Diana’s beloved grandmother - a spirited woman who loves her, cares for her, even teaches her to type her first stories on a Remington typewriter. So when Regina inexplicably takes her own life at age sixty-one, ten-year-old Diana is left devastated.
Three decades later, Diana discovers Regina’s secret diary and learns all about her grandmother’s life - from the...
About Diana
Since childhood, Diana has been fascinated with the written word. As an only child of working parents, she spent lots of time alone, which she filled with reading a great deal of books and filling the pages of many journals. That's how she liked to keep busy...
Connections
Causes Diana Raab Supports
Journaling, Writing for Healing, American Foundation For Suicide Prevention,
Diana’s Favorite Books
Anais Nin's Journals,
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert,
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende,
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger,
This Boy's Life by Tobias...