Product Description: Based on a solid framework of theory and research, this book illustrates definitive ways in which we learn to recognize psychological boundaries―our unique inner territory―and to defend our rights in every relationship. In a study that interweaves poetry, drama, and psychological theory, the author describes patterns of family dynamics in the context of everyday lives and how they affect us from generation to generation until we break the destructive chain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These poems celebrate the "honeysuckle and manure" of the Alabama landscape, conveying at once its deep sweetness and its darker undertones of poverty and pain.