In Praise of Falling

 

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Winner of the 2008
Agnes Lynch Starrett
Poetry Prize 

Enacting the Zen proverb, "Fall down seven times, get up eight," the poems in this collection address the ways in which we fall—through disillusionment, disappointment, or plain, old-fashioned mistakes. And they address the ways we rise up—out of personal debacles, unfortunate circumstances, family legacies, and collective struggles.

Hitched!

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             Introduction 
          by Rosie O'Donnell

In February 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom welcomed same-sex couples to get married at City Hall, sending shock waves around the world. Read these first-hand accounts from couples who were married during The Winter of Love.

"[A]ll the contributions have a lovely, soft everydayness as they explain who these couples are and trace the histories of their relationships . . . Moving, big-hearted affirmations of everyone's right to marriage."   

                      Kirkus Reviews

Dorothy Parker's Elbow

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Edited with Kim Addonizio

This collection of poems, fiction, and memoir includes many of our most gifted writers across several colorful decades, who have found the images of the tattoo needle a vivid subject for the language of the pen. Including the work of Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, and contemporaries like Mark Doty and Elizabeth McCracken, this collection spans the range of human experience, from the awesome to the absurd.