Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher, academic, or social worker who wants to help those who are suffering. Or maybe you are in an abusive relationship and need to know that you are not alone. The poems, memoirs, and creative nonfiction pieces collected here tell of real incidents of abuse, as well as of those who left destructive and unsalvageable relationships. The beauty and truth of the language, as well as the honesty and courage, set this anthology apart from self-help…mehr
Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher, academic, or social worker who wants to help those who are suffering. Or maybe you are in an abusive relationship and need to know that you are not alone. The poems, memoirs, and creative nonfiction pieces collected here tell of real incidents of abuse, as well as of those who left destructive and unsalvageable relationships. The beauty and truth of the language, as well as the honesty and courage, set this anthology apart from self-help manuals and academic treatises on domestic violence. This book offers a path forward to healing, health and fulfillment, using the power of art to give voice where voice has been stifled, forgotten, overlooked or denied.
Judith Skillman is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She holds a masters in English literature from the University of Maryland and is the author of twenty collections of poetry and a "how to": Broken Lines-The Art & Craft of Poetry (Lummox Press). The recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Artist Trust, Skillman's work has appeared in LitMag, Poetry, Sewanee Review, The Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, Zyzzyva, We Refugees, and other journals and anthologies.Ms. Skillman has been a Writer in Residence at the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington, and the Hedgebrook Foundation on Whidbey Island. She is the editor, with Linera Lucas, of When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional, and Physical Abuse, from Exposit Books, and a faculty member at Hugo House in Seattle.Also a visual artist, Ms. Skillman paints expressionist works in oil on canvas. She is interested in feelings engendered by the natural world. Her art has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Artemis, The Penn Review, and other journals. -www.judithskillman.com
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Table of Contents Preface by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas Introduction by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas I-Home Heidi Seaborn Weather Drafting a Flight Plan Jennifer Jenkins Hit Me Susan April The Ballet Howie Good Anger Is an Arrow Stick Figure Family The Secret Goldfish Emma Brousseau What's True of the Garden Pea Wren Tuatha Fissure Chelsea Clammer Balcony, 3 a.m. Nina Fosati Her Father's Daughter RK Taylor holy / days Lynn Magill You Smiled Michael Cynthia Steele Words "Too Dark" for the Father's Day Edition Kurt Olsson Packs Drowned The Best of a Bad Year J. Flynn Doncaster Ever Closer II-Trauma Lindsay Erdman Abroad LeeAnn Olivier Kintsugi Aimee Parkison Girl in Rape Kit Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi A Slice of Summer Mary Ellen Talley Wine Song How to Survive Abuse A Steady Whip Ogu Chukwuebuka Kizito Voices from the Streets Carolyne Wright Mandamientos: Lover to Beloved I Forgive Paul Rousseau Kitchen Table Jonaki It Wasn't the First Time He Hit Me Darlene Goetzman Reading the Lines Anne Spollen From Where I Live Now Izzy Wilson Why Are They Fighting? Christina Hoag When His Words Became a Drug Amelia Goldman The Fixer Sally Quon Beginnings Gayelene Carbis His face Right in My Face The Weight of Words in Our Hands Like Water This is What Happened Kelsey Brown A Game of Cat and Mouse Polly Buckingham Excerpt-The Queen in the Mirror III-PTSD Tina Barry Pine Roxanne James Counting Raindrops Lillo Pearls Before Swine Sally Showalter Stone Lies H.M. Clark Fire Line Danielle Hark I Keep Secrets Stashed in a Lock Box Abandoned Doll Cold Sheets Secrets Stashed in Tiny Orange Pill Bottles Lexy Courneya Memoir Excerpts Memoir Excerpts II Joyce Hayden The Out of Body Girl Marjorie Maddox Eiffel Tower On a Hot Summer Night for Revenge The Truth of Lies, The Lies of Truth Sharp. IV-In Retrospect Susan Landgraf The Woman Who Held Her Tongue Carol Smallwood House of Cards A Picnic Rosanne Ehrlich Two-Year Slide in Brooklyn Heights Linera Lucas Saddle Up Signal Lindsey Heatherly Weaving Rope Robert Kingett My First Online Love Alice Ting Tug of War Judith Skillman Trellis Years Later Jeff Burd Lost in Transmission Mary Zelinka Last Supper Sailor Holladay Red Flag Alison Stone Heretic Tina Kelley Pushed Out of the Chevy, She Adjusts Her Miniskirt Meggie Royer Twenty Years of Rain Acknowledgments Acknowledgments of Previously Published Work Notes About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas Introduction by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas I-Home Heidi Seaborn Weather Drafting a Flight Plan Jennifer Jenkins Hit Me Susan April The Ballet Howie Good Anger Is an Arrow Stick Figure Family The Secret Goldfish Emma Brousseau What's True of the Garden Pea Wren Tuatha Fissure Chelsea Clammer Balcony, 3 a.m. Nina Fosati Her Father's Daughter RK Taylor holy / days Lynn Magill You Smiled Michael Cynthia Steele Words "Too Dark" for the Father's Day Edition Kurt Olsson Packs Drowned The Best of a Bad Year J. Flynn Doncaster Ever Closer II-Trauma Lindsay Erdman Abroad LeeAnn Olivier Kintsugi Aimee Parkison Girl in Rape Kit Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi A Slice of Summer Mary Ellen Talley Wine Song How to Survive Abuse A Steady Whip Ogu Chukwuebuka Kizito Voices from the Streets Carolyne Wright Mandamientos: Lover to Beloved I Forgive Paul Rousseau Kitchen Table Jonaki It Wasn't the First Time He Hit Me Darlene Goetzman Reading the Lines Anne Spollen From Where I Live Now Izzy Wilson Why Are They Fighting? Christina Hoag When His Words Became a Drug Amelia Goldman The Fixer Sally Quon Beginnings Gayelene Carbis His face Right in My Face The Weight of Words in Our Hands Like Water This is What Happened Kelsey Brown A Game of Cat and Mouse Polly Buckingham Excerpt-The Queen in the Mirror III-PTSD Tina Barry Pine Roxanne James Counting Raindrops Lillo Pearls Before Swine Sally Showalter Stone Lies H.M. Clark Fire Line Danielle Hark I Keep Secrets Stashed in a Lock Box Abandoned Doll Cold Sheets Secrets Stashed in Tiny Orange Pill Bottles Lexy Courneya Memoir Excerpts Memoir Excerpts II Joyce Hayden The Out of Body Girl Marjorie Maddox Eiffel Tower On a Hot Summer Night for Revenge The Truth of Lies, The Lies of Truth Sharp. IV-In Retrospect Susan Landgraf The Woman Who Held Her Tongue Carol Smallwood House of Cards A Picnic Rosanne Ehrlich Two-Year Slide in Brooklyn Heights Linera Lucas Saddle Up Signal Lindsey Heatherly Weaving Rope Robert Kingett My First Online Love Alice Ting Tug of War Judith Skillman Trellis Years Later Jeff Burd Lost in Transmission Mary Zelinka Last Supper Sailor Holladay Red Flag Alison Stone Heretic Tina Kelley Pushed Out of the Chevy, She Adjusts Her Miniskirt Meggie Royer Twenty Years of Rain Acknowledgments Acknowledgments of Previously Published Work Notes About the Contributors Index
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