{"id":15971,"date":"2025-03-28T16:55:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-i-am-maria-by-maria-shriver\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:55:44","slug":"book-excerpt-i-am-maria-by-maria-shriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/book-excerpt-i-am-maria-by-maria-shriver\/","title":{"rendered":"Book excerpt: &#8220;I Am Maria&#8221; by Maria Shriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/28\/25a5f409-ee8a-48b2-9eae-5e7c4e23de00\/thumbnail\/620x465\/60a238dec6ddd135b44e3483b5979cc4\/i-am-maria-cover-the-open-field-1280.jpg?v=95354023eeb6141c58c08d9a5716f291#\" alt=\"i-am-maria-cover-the-open-field-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/28\/25a5f409-ee8a-48b2-9eae-5e7c4e23de00\/thumbnail\/620x465\/60a238dec6ddd135b44e3483b5979cc4\/i-am-maria-cover-the-open-field-1280.jpg?v=95354023eeb6141c58c08d9a5716f291 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/28\/25a5f409-ee8a-48b2-9eae-5e7c4e23de00\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/6dda2df8411e3ef44dd1e95badcb4fd3\/i-am-maria-cover-the-open-field-1280.jpg?v=95354023eeb6141c58c08d9a5716f291 2x\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20620%20465'%2F%3E\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                The Open Field<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In her new memoir, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/720451\/i-am-maria-by-maria-shriver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> (to be published April 1 by The Open Field), Maria Shriver \u2013 the daughter of Kennedys, broadcast journalist, and former first lady of California \u2013 uses poetry to explore a woman in search of herself. <\/p>\n<p>Read some selected poems below, and <strong>don&#8217;t miss Lee Cowan&#8217;s interview with Maria Shriver on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sunday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221;<\/a> March 30!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Am-Maria-Reflections-Heartbreak-Healing\/dp\/0593653394?tag=cbs-news-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;I Am Maria&#8221; by Maria Shriver<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prefer to listen?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clicks.trx-hub.com\/xid\/cbsint_a10ef_cbsnews?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fb%3Fnode%3D18145289011%26linkCode%3Dll2%26tag%3Dcbs-news-20%26linkId%3Daa786326720cc98c8ec74d842c39745b%26language%3Den_US%26ref_%3Das_li_ss_tl&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fbook-excerpt-i-am-maria-by-maria-shriver%2F&amp;event_type=click&amp;article_id=9fba88c2-2133-49ef-a338-78770fb3a6d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow, sponsored, noopener\">Audible<\/a>\u00a0has a 30-day free trial available right now.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>I Know You Loved Me<\/h2>\n<p>Beyond a shadow<br \/>Beyond the words<br \/>Beyond the picture of what a loving nurturing mother<br \/>Is supposed to look like<br \/>Act like<br \/>Talk like<br \/>Touch like<br \/>There is you<br \/>I couldn&#8217;t find anyone like you in my picture books<br \/>No mothers looked like you<br \/>Dressed in pants like you<br \/>Had hair like you<br \/>Played football like you<br \/>Smoked cigars like you<br \/>Yet I knew you loved me<br \/>I knew you wanted more for me than you had been given<br \/>I knew you wanted for me everything you had been denied<br \/>Beyond a shadow I know you loved me<br \/>The way you smiled at me and cheered for me<br \/>The way you pushed me<br \/>I know you loved me<br \/>Do you know how much I loved you<br \/>Beyond a shadow you were my everything<br \/>I understand so much more about you today<br \/>You too were scared<br \/>You too longed to be seen<br \/>You too longed to be held<br \/>My heart breaks for you<br \/>As I&#8217;ve come to learn we cannot give what wasn&#8217;t given to us<br \/>As you grew older you softened<br \/>You allowed me in<br \/>My heart breaks for my mother<br \/>But no one let her in<br \/>But no one held her<br \/>No one comforted her<br \/>No one told her she was enough<br \/>Her journey was relentless<br \/>Her energy unbridled<br \/>I understand now and I&#8217;m so sorry<br \/>Beyond a shadow I know you loved me<br \/>Beyond a shadow I loved you<\/p>\n<h2>Dear Life<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to talk to you lately to tell you<br \/>You are not what I planned<br \/>You may not give a damn but I thought you should know<br \/>You are not what I expected<br \/>I thought as long as I had my compass pointing north<br \/>All would be good<br \/>But I learned that my heart doesn&#8217;t know north<br \/>My life has led me on a path written in invisible ink<br \/>Longing for more from a soul I didn&#8217;t know yet<br \/>So here we are Life<br \/>Without a compass without a map<br \/>Only my heart guiding me forward<br \/>It wonders<br \/>Am I ready to be known in a new and deep way?<br \/>Am I strong enough to open my heart and divulge what lies<br \/>within?<br \/>Life you say that&#8217;s what you are all about<br \/>Let&#8217;s see how the universe responds<br \/>When I pull back the curtain on my soul<\/p>\n<h2>Fragments of Me<\/h2>\n<p>They are everywhere<br \/>The fragments of me<br \/>In the closet in the drawer in the ceiling looking down<br \/>The fragments of me are all over the land<br \/>They are in Chicago<br \/>In Maryland<br \/>In the hall at my school<br \/>In my bedroom<br \/>Where I broke into two<br \/>What about you<br \/>Are you shattered<br \/>Are you fragmented<br \/>In pieces as well<br \/>Is your life here on earth<br \/>A heaven or hell<br \/>Do you vacillate<br \/>Between power and impotence<br \/>Wanting nothing or wanting it all<br \/>Do you stare down on yourself dissociated from life<br \/>When you close your eyes do you pray for the relief of a knife<br \/>Tell me tell me<br \/>Are you the coward the hero a player of hearts<br \/>Do you know who you are or have you vanished from your life<br \/>Stand up show yourself stop hiding here and there<br \/>Go pick up the pieces<br \/>They&#8217;re everywhere<br \/>It&#8217;s a mess it&#8217;s a shambles<br \/>You are here and you are there<br \/>Don&#8217;t you see<br \/>Don&#8217;t you care that you&#8217;re everywhere<br \/>It&#8217;s up to you<br \/>Up to you to piece together your life<br \/>Up to you to make sense<br \/>Up to you to go back<br \/>Back to where it began<br \/>Go back to your birth<br \/>Go back if you can<br \/>Go back to Hyannis<br \/>Go back to your room<br \/>Go back<br \/>Tell him you know and no longer feel shame<br \/>Tell her you love her and pray for her pain<br \/>Go back pick up the pieces<br \/>Make yourself whole<br \/>Go back to the fragments<br \/>They&#8217;re the key to your soul<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Excerpted from &#8220;I Am Maria&#8221; 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