Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet

Just the Girls

A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A gardener tends her vegetables and flowers while devising a way to manage her burgeoning chipmunk problem. A daughter pens a letter to her dead father. Jesus saunters into hot yoga and dazzles the assembled practitioners. Three sisters play on their swing set in the middle of the night. In these-and other-poems from Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees, women support, cheer, challenge, and, ultimately, sustain each other. Just the Girls celebrates women and what it means to be connected to the female whole. Advance Praise: "Just the Girls is a poetic celebration of female friendship. In brilliantly created portraits of a family of sisters, aunts, mothers, and daughters, Anderson gives us a close look at the many ways in which women matter to each other."~ Maggie Anderson, author of Dear All, "We're in the presence of a poet with an ear for how language shapes our worlds, and an eye alert to the details that make those worlds real to us. What a splendid, moving collection of lyrics!"~ Dr. Steven Reese, authorExcentrica: Notes on the Text "Pam Anderson's work is smart, sensitive, and at times wonderfully wry."~ Thomas Dukes, poet and author "Anderson gives our everyday lives a voice that is rich and cuts to the quick. She has a gift for articulating the beauties and mysteries of our lives in poetry that will leave you wanting more."~ Diane Laney Fitzpatrick, author and social media strategist "These poems are a poignant catalog of what we learn from girls and women, inspiration and cautionary tale, and our complicated memories of domestic life."~ Karen Schubert, author of The Compost Reader

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Poetry Box
• Seitenzahl: 52
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 80g
• ISBN-13: 9781948461641
• ISBN-10: 1948461641
• Artikelnr.: 60028972

Autorenporträt

Pam Anderson is a poet, lover of blues music, traveler, hiker, and yoga practitioner who grew up in Warren, Ohio, in an area once known as The Steel Valley. Much of her writing focuses on the Holocaust, reflecting stories her father recounted from his service as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne during WWII. Her poem "Pack It: The American Paratrooper Teaches the New Kid to Pack His Parachute" was published in JennyMag.org, and her Holocaust poem "My Brother's Coat" won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Journals Project Award. Her poetry also has appeared in Whurk, Mason's Road, Atticus Review, Sky Island Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in English Literature from Kent State University and an MFA from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program (NEOMFA), which awarded her a Bisbee (Arizona) Travel and Study Fellowship. She has been a ghostwriter, grants writer, and fundraiser for public radio. When she is not traveling with her husband to far-flung places to snap pictures of windows, doors, and lightbulbs, you can find her in Northeast Ohio; Virginia's Shenandoah Valley; or Charlotte, North Carolina. More information at pamelaranderson.org.