Product Description: The strongest collection yet from this widely praised poet is about the central players in our lives, our relationships over time—between mother and son, mother and daughter—and how one generation of relationships informs and shapes the next...read more

A chance encounter with Stephen, a childhood friend with whom she has shared a complicated relationship, forces Eleanor Cahn, a literature professor and wife of a leading cardiac surgeon, to reevaluate her life, her erotic past, and the passionate woman she suppressed for years.

Engaged to be married, Anna Crane reflects back on her childhood in small-town Ohio during the 1960s and 1970s with two sisters and charismatic, self-destructive mother as she recalls her own first love affair with a troubled boy, her mother's complex love life, and her betrayal by two important figures in her life. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Jill Bialosky follows her acclaimed debut collection, The End of Desire, with this powerful sequence of poems that probes the subterranean depths of eros. Gerald Stern has called Bialosky “the poet of the secret garden, the place, at once, of grace and sadness,” and here she enters that garden again, blending the classical with the contemporary in bold considerations of desire, fertility, virginity, and childbirth...read more

Explores the alternative way in which people may become pregnant today and the humor, courage, pain, and joys of becoming a parent

Combining an uncompromising reality, keen insights, and meticulous poetic technique, a first collection of poetry explores such concerns as childhood and adolescence shattered by the death of a father and the struggles of a single mother to raise her daughters. Reprint.