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Women Writing about Exile
Deborah Keenan and Roseann Lloyd
Contemporary women writers reflect and meditate, rage and bless, as
they tell their stories, and their ancestors' stories—speaking to the
common concerns and passionate connections between women of many
cultures. These poems offer many definitions of what it is to be
exiled: the experience of learning a new language; living in two
cultures; being forced by war to emigrate; choosing to leave a
homeland; living a life of alienation, of illness, chemical dependency,
or exile from the dominant culture.
Deborah Keenan
Roseann Lloyd
Author's Bio:Deborah Keenan is a poet, the author of The Only Window That Counts and Household Wounds (New Rivers Press), One Angel Then (Midnight Paper Sales), and co-author of How We Missed Belgium. She is a recipient of a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
Roseann Lloyd's latest book is JourneyNotes, a collaboration with writer Richard Solly (Harper/Hazelden). Her collection of poems, Tap Dancing For Big Mom, is published by New Rivers Press. She is also the co-translator, from the Norwegian, of The House with the Blind Glass Windows (Seal Press). She is currently at work on a new collection of poems. Awards:American Book Award 1991
Susan B. Koppelman Award 1993
The New York
Public Library “Books for the Teen Age”1992
ALA Notable Book
Nomination Quotes:“The subtitle only hints at the breadth of work within this exemplary
collection. . . . We see exile in all the experiences that take one away
from the self's core: in racial oppression, in child battering, in
poverty that, although it begins in economics, extends to the spirit
itself.”—ALA Booklist (starred review) |
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Binding: Paper
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 1990
Size: 6 x 9
Genre: Poetry Anthology
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780915943456
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