Release date: July 21, 2009
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Virginia, Michael & Elaine Madsen: From Chicago to their dreams by Roger Ebert

ELAINE MADSEN's Emmy® Award winning documentary about filmmaking in Chicago aired on NBC and PBS. Her new documentary, I Know a Woman Like That, is being produced by her daughter, Academy Award® nominee Virginia Madsen and her Title IX productions.

Madsen is co-author of The Texan and Dutch Gas: Kicking Off the European Energy Revolution, published in the U.S. and the Netherlands in 2007. She is also the mother of prize winning poet and critically acclaimed actor, Michael Madsen, and Wisconsin writer, Cheri Borowiec.

Elaine's first book, Crayola Can't Make These Colors, is due to be released by 13 Hands Publications on July 21, 2009. She is sharing previously unpublished poems dating back more than 35 years in an insightful, emotionally moving collection of poetry.

"It's so good to hear from a woman who's been through a complete life, and lives to tell about it. The agonies and joys. Her loves, her children, her friends. Her commitments to the history, politics, and art of our time, Elaine Madsen is a poet offering us wit and grace."
--Maxine Hong Kingston

"The finely-wrought, musical poetry of Elaine Madsen, spanning a daring lifetime of depths and heights, is full of hard-earned wisdom. The lady knows." --Aram Saroyan

"Elaine Madsen's poems probe the heart and soul, inching their way towards sudden luminescent insights. The words and feelings are tenacious, self revelatory, wise and couragious, all aspects of who and what Elaine encompasses as a woman and artist." --Lyle Kessler

"A dangerous, moving, insightful, collection of poems, rich in imagery, and language--an open window into the heart of a remarkable, passionate woman." --Bruce Goldsmith, Author of The Hard R Marathon, Talk about Money, When It Comes to Women