Fiction. "It's a wonderful book! The combination of presenting people's work and then giving us the chance to find out about their lives (inner and outer) is inspired. The amount of space given to each writer is respectful, a quite beautiful setting in which each writer shines as herself and also becomes part or a whole. These accounts speak to writers and to women of all ages" -Janet Sternburg.

A Wider Giving: Women Writing After A Long Silence

Literature & Fiction

United States

Chicory Blue Press

Poetry. This first-of-its-kind collection of poems is intended for gardeners who cannot, even in season, get enough of flower gardening through eyes, nose, fingertips, knees or backs, and who, out of season, feel restless and uprooted. The setting in most of the fifty-one poems is the flower garden. The images are botanically and horticulturally accurate. The order of the poems reflects a gardener's year. Alive among the poems are the compelling blossoms, stalks and leaves of Emily Nelligan's drawings.

Heart of the Flower: Poems for the Sensuous Gardener

History & Criticism

These dramatic stories, by the author of the acclaimed and controversial novel Ethel: The Fictional Autobiography of Ethel Rosenberg, risk various cultural taboos: they probe the relationship between a liberal white woman and her black maid, the balance of power between an anguished mother and her mentally-ill daughter, the erotic life of older women, and the feelings concealed by the rituals of casual love-affairs.

Full Moon (A Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Nason, Tema

Sellie and Dee: A Friendship (A Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Leontief, Estelle

These poems evoke the poet's life as a nun for eighteen years, the heritage that led her to the convent, and the quest that sent her back into the world at large. The centerpiece of the collection, a long, passionate poem called "The Sister Mailee Sequence, " recreates the struggle of a sensuous young woman, a budding poet, to submit her nature to the rule of the convent.

Unveiling (A Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Kiefer, Rita

Poetry

Murderous Music (Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Wagner, Anneliese

With the headlong energy of its lines, its long looks backward, its commanding changes of mood and voice, She) Poems recreates a rarely captured reality of women's lives.

She) Poems (A Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Sanchez, Carol Lee

This unique collection includes fiction, memoirs, and poetry, by seven women writers past the age of sixty: Alvia Golden, Rita Kiefer, Estelle Leontief, Carrie Allen McCray, Tema Nason, Anneliese Wagner, and Sondra Zeidenstein. Each author's creative writing is followed by an Afterword in which she talks about what is currently on her mind as an artist.

The Crimson Edge: Older Women Writing (A Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Intricate Moves: Poems About Rape (Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Swift, Joan

Anthology. This unique anthology of fiction, memoir, and poetry edited by Sondra Zeidenstein presents seven women writers past the age of sixty, of various cultural backgrounds and histories. Barbara Moore Balzer, Pearl Garrett Crayton, Carol Lee Sanchez, Joan Swift, Eileen Tobin, Florence Weinberger, and Nellie Wong all contribute their individual, authentic life experiences in their writing. Each author's work is followed by an Afterword in which she talks about what is currently on her mind as an artist. Here is living proof of a revolutionary and reassuring fact: maturity is not a detriment but an asset. These stories, poems, and essays move freely in time, rendering life in all its shifting multiplicity through the capricious lens of age. The Afterwords by the writers, each of whom has achieved her own obdurate, hard-won identity, are gloriously articulate. This ground-breaking book has fed me as a woman and writer as only a handful of books has. -- Enid Shomer

The Crimson Edge: Older Women Writing, Vol. 2 (Crimson Edge Chapbook)

Zeidenstein, Sondra

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