Poetry. DAYS OF BLUE AND FLAME by 101-year-old Sarah Yerkes investigates subjects closest to the author's heart—childhood, family, travel, aging, art. After a career as a sculptor and a landscape architect, Yerkes began writing poetry at age 97. "I ...
Learn More...
Poetry. These poems were influenced by the author's grandchildren, adolescence, mortality, marriage, sexuality, travel, and her keen observations of strangers. Present too are connections to nature and the natural world. "Like the sturdy root that l...
Poetry. Art. Music. This collection of poems was written under the influence of jazz, Shakespeare, Basquiat, boxing, the Bronx and the Basque country. The poems are more Coltrane-like riff than meditation, unable to keep their verbal dexterity still...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. In OLD WOMEN TALKING, Wilderness Sarchild celebrates growing old without denying the difficulties. Shouting, divulging, gossiping, sobbing, ranting, keening, Sarchild's old women awaken us with their passion ...
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Memoir. Humor. PRICKLY ROSES: STORIES FROM A LIFE is a collection of high-spirited, often humorous essays spanning the adventurous life of 93-year-old Joyce Abell. Frequently on her own from the age of three...
Poetry. The poems in A SUNDAY IN PURGATORY combine memoir, reflections on aging, sexuality, and wrestling with the tension that exists between being part of a famous American family and wanting to be an individual, separate from family history. Morg...
Poetry. Anne Frydman has the soul and sensibility of a Japanese poet, her poems small, shining moments where an intimate dramatic situation is coupled with piercing insight. Frydman writes with disarming simplicity and directness about human mortali...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Jewish Studies. In this heartbreaking, hilarious memoir, Nancy Davidoff Kelton takes us from the gray house of her Buffalo childhood with a depressed mother who was in and out of "the nervous hospital," to the often daun...
Poetry. This collection of poems speaks of discomfort and unfamiliarity, of death and mourning, the disorientation they bring to life. Of the ultimate constraints of human existence. And finally, these poems sing in the voice of spiritual transcende...
Poetry. THE WANT FIRE explores memory, aging, the elemental pleasures of wind and waves, and earthly creatures of all shapes and sizes, painting moments—glimpses inside the spirit world—that reside in the physical world around us.
Poetry. This collection is grounded not only in those moments of loss that come with age, but also in those moments of realization that there is still a richness in what remains. The poems are interspersed with illustrations of dandelions, their fle...
Poetry. Diana Anhalt's newest collection, BECAUSE THERE IS NO RETURN, is the reminiscence of her life in Mexico after fleeing the U.S. with her parents during the McCarthy Era. After nearly sixty years Diana returned to the US, only to find that it ...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Interest. BEYOND LOWU BRIDGE tells the story of a young Chinese-American's "return" to a country he had never seen and the experiences of his family during two turbulent decades...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Poet Moira Egan finally turned fifty, and her poetic journey has gotten ever sweatier and sexier. In her latest collection, HOT FLASH SONNETS, she explores the sultry joys and humorous indignities of becoming a woman of a ce...
Poetry. "To truly see—as Matanle well knows—is to still one's own heart and let the world come close, in all its tender, frightening, sensual guises."—Lia Purpura