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

Product Description: From acclaimed poet Jill Bialosky: a haunting series of poems about the dangers of eros and the creation of art, “as intense and perfectly noted as violin concertos” (Booklist).

Product Description: Eleanor Cahn, a professor of literature, wife of a preeminent surgeon, and devoted mother of two, is in Paris to present a paper on Anna Karenina. A chance encounter brings to the surface passions she has suppressed for years. As The Life Room unfolds, we learn the secrets of her erotic past: ethereal William, her high school boyfriend; her role as muse to troubled painter Adam; her marriage to loyal, steady Michael...read more

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 (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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 (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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.