In a look back at life in the 1950s, the author comes to terms with her mother's early death from cancer, her father's alcoholism, and her sister's drift into homelessness

Dream House: A Memoir

History

Nekola, Charlotte

Americas

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Feminist Press at CUNY

The co-editor of Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 comes to terms with her mother's early death from cancer, her father's alcoholism, and her sister's drift into homelessness in a look back at life in the 1950s.

Dream House: A Memoir (Graywolf Rediscovery)

Graywolf Pr

The poems in Charlotte Nekola's collection, Della Who, have both power and grace, a rare combination. They delve into the past but remain firmly anchored in the present, in the poet's time and place. I love their formal restraint and their freedom of spirit. I love above all the truths they tell. -Pablo Medina, author of Cubop City Blues Though they are not in the least dreamy, the poems in this astonishing collection compel like vivid dreams. They have the mystery of classic foreign films-if when you left the theater you could taste salt on your lips and smell the scent of sassafras root. The title poem, "Della Who," gives us a true woman of mystery-who is and is not Della Street, Perry Mason's secretary. She is a savannah, a river, mud on an apron-a street. A street with red lips and white gloves, "the minimum qualifications." -Arlene Weiner, author of Escape Velocity

Della Who

Poetry

Ragged Sky Press

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