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  • El Tercer País: San Diego and Tijuana

    Two Countries, Two Cities, One Community

    by Michael S. Malone ...
    Amazon #1 best seller.Two of the most important cities in North America are so physically close they would touch were they not separated by a wall at the US-Mexico border. That border has been a flashpoint of contention for centuries. And yet, the untold reality in San Diego and Tijuana is that tens of thousands of people cross through that wall in both directions-lawfully-each day, to work, go to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • We Got This

    Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor

    Edited by Marika Lindholm, Cheryl Dumesnil, Katherine Shonk, Domenica Ruta ...
    In the United States, more than 15 million women are parenting children on their own, either by circumstance or by choice. Too often these moms who do it all have been misrepresented and maligned. Not anymore. In We Got This, seventy-five solo mom writers tell the truth about their lives—their hopes and fears, their resilience and setbacks, their embarrassments and triumphs. Some of these writers’ ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes

    by Cheryl Dumesnil ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    The poems in Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes are survival songs, the tunes you whistle while walking through the Valley of Shadows, to keep your fears at bay and your spirit awake. The shadows here are many—cancer, poverty, a lost love, famine, suicide, war, an ever-encroaching existential angst. But so are the saving graces—a drag queen waitress whose "painted-on eyebrows arched like a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • In Praise of Falling

    by Cheryl Dumesnil ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century's prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dorothy Parker's Elbow

    Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos

    Edited by Kim Addonizio, Cheryl Dumesnil ...
    Stories, poems, and memoirs about tattoos, from notable authors such as Flannery O'Connor, Rick Moody, Elizabeth McCracken, Sylvia Plath, and more.Once the province of sailors and bikers, tattoos have emerged from backdoor parlors to suburban shopping malls. Today they adorn starlets' ankles, housewives' shoulders, and bankers' biceps. Fashionable? Most definitely. Respectable? Not always. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Love Song For Baby X

    How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood

    by Cheryl Dumesnil ...
    Love Song for Baby X is the moving and humorous story of a lesbian couple's struggles with infertility as they attempt to become parents, set against the backdrop of the marriage equality movement.While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she'll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood, she is nevertheless unprepared for what she actually encounters, including navigating the maze of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Inseminating the Elephant

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "Inseminating the Elephant [is] a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examines popular culture, the limits of the human body, and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience."-Pulitzer Prize finalist citation"These poems are tough and witty."-The New Yorker"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo."-Time Out New YorkA 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Carrying

    Poems

    by Ada Limón ...
    NBCC Award Winner: "The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body." — The New York TimesVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility— ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Human Line

    by Ellen Bass ...
    “Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.”The Human Line, Bass’ seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life’s endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • What Is This Thing Called Love

    Poems

    by Kim Addonizio ...
    Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award.A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Book of Men

    Poems

    by Dorianne Laux ...
    "Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip LevineThe narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Ideal Cities

    Poems

    by Erika Meitner ...
    Series series National Poetry Series
    "These poems are so generous, so bright and sharp, so funny and winning, they feel immense."—Paul Guest"Erika Meitner is the new voice of intelligent and emotional poems. Good for poetry. Good for poetry lovers. Good for the rest of us, too."— Nikki GiovanniExploring themes of pregnancy, motherhood, ancestry, and life in the borderline slums of Washington, DC, the richly felt and adroit poetry of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus