"Her voice is clear and colorful, her imagery full, and her self-search fresh.... Barrington's passion is for the heart's dialogue, the search for the kindred other."--CALYX¶"Graceful, urbane poetry, claiming respect with its distilled clarity and hitting the deepest psychological nerves."--OUT/LOOK

Trying to Be an Honest Woman

Literature & Fiction

Barrington, Judith

Literary

The Eighth Mountain Press

Essays, stories, and poems explore questions of definition, vocabulary, history, possibility, and meaning, bringing together many of the best contemporary lesbian writers. "A refreshingly honest treatment of a complex subject."--Library Journal ¶"A wide and useful collection."--Booklist

Intimate Wilderness

United States

Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics to questions of craft and the crucial retrospective voice. An appendix provides information on legal issues. Judith Barrington, an award-winning memoir writer and acclaimed writing teacher, is attuned to the forces, both external and internal, that work to stop a writer; her tone is respectful of the difficulties and encouraging of taking risks. Her nimble prose, her deep belief in the importance of this genre, and her delight in the rich array of memoirists writing today make this book more than the typical "how-to" creative writing book. In this second edition the author has added new material and reflects on issues raised since Writing the Memoir was written, early in the memoir boom. "No student of memoir writing could fail to learn from this wise, pragmatic, and confiding book. One hears on every page the voice of an intelligent and responsive teacher, with years of thinking about memoir behind her."â€”Vivian Gornick Judith Barrington is the author of Lifesaving: A Memoir and numerous individual memoirs which have been published in literary magazines and anthologies. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Trying to Be an Honest Woman, History and Geography, and Horses and the Human Soul (forthcoming in 2002). She has taught creative writing for the past twenty years.

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Lifesaving: A Memoir

A new memoir from the author of the popular Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art.

Arts & Literature

A new memoir from the author of the popular Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art.

Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics to questions of craft and the crucial retrospective voice. An appendix provides information on legal issues.
Judith Barrington, an award-winning memoir writer and acclaimed writing teacher, is attuned to the forces, both external and internal, that work to stop a writer; her tone is respectful of the difficulties and encouraging of taking risks. Her nimble prose, her deep belief in the importance of this genre, and her delight in the rich array of memoirists writing today make this book more than the typical "how-to" creative writing book. In this second edition the author has added new material and reflects on issues raised since Writing the Memoir was written, early in the memoir boom.
"No student of memoir writing could fail to learn from this wise, pragmatic, and confiding book. One hears on every page the voice of an intelligent and responsive teacher, with years of thinking about memoir behind her."—Vivian Gornick
Judith Barrington is the author of Lifesaving: A Memoir and numerous individual memoirs which have been published in literary magazines and anthologies. She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Trying to Be an Honest Woman, History and Geography, and Horses and the Human Soul (forthcoming in 2002). She has taught creative writing for the past twenty years.

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edit

Self-Help

Creativity

Provides guidelines for writing memoirs and personal accounts, including tips on telling the truth, writing about living people, and placing a personal story in a larger context.

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Eighth Mountain Pr

Praise for History and Geography:"Barrington's history, like Lowell's, is intensely personal; her geography, like Bishop's, extracts the familiar from the exotic and the exotic from the familiar."-The Nation"She engages wittily with cultural differences . . . and gives a prominent place to what Elizabeth Bishop, of whom her writing sometimes reminds me, called 'questions of travel.'"-The Women's Review of Books"Written in a voice at once steadfastly bold and gently intimate . . . Barrington demonstrates control of her material, transforming volatile feelings and almost unspeakable observations into cogent, vigorous poetry."-Publishers WeeklyJudith Barrington's memoir, Lifesaving, won the Lambda Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Horses and the Human Soul

Story Line Press

The fourteen literary memoirs collected in Virginia's Apple explore pivotal episodes across poet and writer Judith Barrington's life. Artfully crafted, each one stands alone yet they are linked--characters reappear and, taken together, the pieces create a larger narrative. &nbsp; The content is wide-ranging: the early days of the Second Wave of feminism--the exhilaration, the wildness, the love affairs, the surprises, and the self-invention, as well as the confusion and conflicts of those heady times; navigating a sometimes precarious existence as an out lesbian long before it was commonplace; leaving England and becoming an American citizen; finding a life partner; and growing old with an inherited disability. The author's friendship with the distinguished poet Adrienne Rich is the subject of one story. In another, there's an appearance by the notorious murderer, Lord Lucan, whose wife was a chance acquaintance. &nbsp; These stories are laced with humor and joy, while pulsing below the surface is the slow unfolding of delayed grief over her parents' drowning when she was nineteen, revealing how such a loss can shape a life.

Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs

Oregon State University Press

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Trying to Be an Honest Woman

Intimate Wilderness

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art

Lifesaving: A Memoir

Lifesaving: A Memoir

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edit

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art

Horses and the Human Soul

Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs