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All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir

Product Description: Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents...read more

By Michael Blumenthal

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9780060186296 | Harpercollins, March 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An account of identity and family secrets follows the author, who, forced to endure the same fate as his father, embarks on an odyssey of belonging that affects his entire adult life, and struggles to prevent the problems of the past from affecting his own son's future.

Paperback:

9781943665266 | Vandalia Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents.

9780060933920 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A richly textured and moving account of identity and dark family secrets follows the author, who, forced to endure the same fate as his father, embarks on an odyssey of belonging that affects his entire adult existence, and struggles to prevent the problems of the past from affecting his own son's future.

You Animal Machine: The Golden Greek

Product Description: This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails." Located in history and memory, her life cracks open questions of identity at the heart of an American immigrant woman's experience and becomes an argument that no existence is ever truly marginal...read more

By Eleni Sikelianos

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9781566893602 | Coffee House Pr, June 10, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.

The Riddle Song & Other Rememberings

A collection of stirring interrelated essays blends elements of fiction and real life to delve deeply into the nature of familial relationships, kinship, and individuality. By the author of Naked as Eve.

By Rebecca McClanahan

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9780820323534 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A collection of stirring interrelated essays blends elements of fiction and real life to delve deeply into the nature of familial relationships, kinship, and individuality.

Paperback:

9780820345932, titled "Riddle Song and Other Rememberings" | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 2013, cover price $24.95

Being Flynn: A Memoir

Product Description: This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery...read more

By Nick Flynn

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9780393341492 | Mti rep edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 6, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.

Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton

The author recounts her mother's mental illness, their relationship, and the factors that led to Anne Sexton's suicide in 1974

By Linda Gray Sexton

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Hardcover:

9780316782074 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her mother's mental illness, their relationship, and the factors that led to Anne Sexton's suicide in 1974

Paperback:

9781582437446 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, April 1, 2011), cover price $15.95

9780316782081 | Reissue edition (Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her mother's mental illness, their relationship, and the factors that led to Anne Sexton's suicide in 1974

A River Without Banks

By William Johnson

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9780870715822, titled "A River Without Banks: Place and Belonging in the Inland Northwest" | Oregon State Univ Pr, May 1, 2010, cover price $18.95

Listen: A Memoir

In an autobiographical account, one woman reveals her experiences with her brilliant but abusive father Victor, whose profession as a professor of languages and literature in the 1950s and 1960s helped Wendy learn to translate the darkest secrets of their shared and incestuous past.

By Wendy Salinger

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9781596910836 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, April 4, 2006), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The author reveals her experiences with her brilliant but abusive father, whose profession as a professor of languages and literature helped Wendy learn to translate the darkest secrets of their shared and incestuous past.

Ezra Pound, Father and Teacher: Discretions

In this moving and insightful memoir, set against a backdrop of Fascist Italy and the Tyrolean Alps, Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz reveals a side of the poet which is seldom touched upon, that of the devoted father. A scholar and poet in her own right, who has translated Pound's Cantos into Italian, de Rachewiltz offers a window not only into Pound's life, but also through his biography into his works.

By Mary De Rachewiltz

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9780811216470 | New Directions, December 12, 2005, cover price $16.95

9780811205894 | New Directions, October 1, 1975, cover price $4.75 | About this edition: In this moving and insightful memoir, set against a backdrop of Fascist Italy and the Tyrolean Alps, Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz reveals a side of the poet which is seldom touched upon, that of the devoted father.

Another Bullshit Night In Suck City: A Memoir

The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Nick Flynn

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9780393051391 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker.

Paperback:

9780393329407 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker.

The Liar's Club: A Memoir

The author, a poet, recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town

By Mary Karr

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Hardcover:

9780670850532, titled "The Liars' Club: A Memoir" | Viking Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author, a poet, recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town

Paperback:

9780143107798, titled "The Liars' Club: A Memoir" | Deluxe edition (Penguin Classics, November 10, 2015), cover price $18.00

9780143035749, titled "The Liars' Club: A Memoir" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 30, 2005), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The author, a poet, recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town.

9780140179835, titled "The Liars' Club: A Memoir" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author, a poet, recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780140863086, titled "The Liars' Club: A Memoir" | Penguin/Highbridge, January 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The poet describes her early life in Port Arthur, Texas, surrounded by alcoholism, financial difficulties, and a family in denial.

Prebinding:

9781417689460, titled "Liars' Club: A Memoir" | Turtleback Books, May 31, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The poet recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town.

The Book of Jon

By Eleni Sikelianos

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9780872864368 | City Lights Books, October 15, 2004, cover price $14.95

Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford

The son of the acclaimed poet traces his father's prolific career as documented by his works, noting the senior Stafford's illuminations, silences, fearlessness, and impact as a writer.

By Kim Stafford

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9781555973728 | Graywolf Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The son of the acclaimed poet traces his father's prolific career as documented by his works, noting the senior Stafford's illuminations, silences, fearlessness, and impact as a writer.

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9781555973896 | Graywolf Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $16.00

Down on the Shore: The Family and Place That Forged a Poet's Voice

Product Description: Born shortly after the end of World War I, Holden grew up in the segregated world known simply as "the shore"--Maryland's isolated Eastern Shore. Set against a backdrop of violence as well as love, her memoir reveals a Depression-era lifestyle meted out by stern whites and determined parents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Adele V. Holden

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9781891521041, titled "Down on the Shore: The Family and Place That Forged a Poet's Voice" | Woodholme House Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Book by Holden, Adele V.

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9780870335471, titled "Down on the Shore: The Family and Place That Forged a Poet's Voice" | Tidewater Pub, July 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Born shortly after the end of World War I, Holden grew up in the segregated world known simply as "the shore"--Maryland's isolated Eastern Shore.

Recollections of My Life As a Woman: The New York Years

One of the most important female voices of the Beat generation speaks out in this candid memoir of her life in the 1950s Greenwich Village bohemian art and literary scenes. Reprint.

By Diane Di Prima

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9780670851669 | Viking Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: One of the most prominent female voices of the Beat generation speaks out about her life in the 1950s Greenwich Village art and literary scenes.

Paperback:

9780140231588 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: One of the most important female voices of the Beat generation speaks out in this candid memoir of her life in the 1950s Greenwich Village bohemian art and literary scenes.

Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

The acclaimed poet reveals her childhood as a gifted daughter whose immigrant parents must struggle to provide her with the educational and social opportunities not available to them.

By June Jordan

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Hardcover:

9780465036813, titled "Soldier: A Poet's Childhood" | Basic Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The acclaimed poet reveals her childhood as a gifted daughter whose immigrant parents must struggle to provide her with the educational and social opportunities not available to them.

Paperback:

9780465036820, titled "Soldier: A Poet's Childhood" | Basic Civitas Books, April 22, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The acclaimed poet reveals her childhood as a gifted daughter whose immigrant parents must struggle to provide her with the educational and social opportunities not available to them.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788789991, titled "Soldier: A Poet's Childhood" | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 2001), cover price $38.00

Prebinding:

9780613349574, titled "Soldier: A Poet's Childhood" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $24.55 | About this edition: The acclaimed poet reveals her childhood as a gifted daughter whose immigrant parents must struggle to provide her with the educational and social opportunities not available to them.

Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet offers a powerful, often difficult memoir of his parents, confronting the conflicting forces that conspired to fashion him into the man he is today. Reprint.

By C. K. Williams

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9780374199845 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The National Book Critics Circle Award-winner offers a powerful, often difficult memoir of his parents, confronting the conflicting forces that conspired to fashion him into the man he is today.

Paperback:

9780374527280 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet offers a powerful, often difficult memoir of his parents, confronting the conflicting forces that conspired to fashion him into the man he is today.

Firebird: A Memoir

A respected poet and author offers a harrowing and ultimately redemptive portrait of his childhood and adolescence, providing a glimpse of the horrors of alcoholism and a knowing, sometimes comic, view of suburban America in the 1950s and 1960s. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Mark Doty

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Hardcover:

9780060193744 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A gay poet recounts his difficult childhood and the experiences that shaped him as a writer

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9780060931971 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2000), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A gay poet recounts his difficult childhood and the experiences that shaped him as a writer.

Terra Infirma: A Memoir of My Mother's Life in Mine

Product Description: Ter'ra in'fir'ma, n. 1. Shaky ground. 2. The uneasy shared territory of love and painful separation that defines mother and son. 3. The border between life and death. 4. The precariously emotional place in which we are left after the death of a parent...read more

By Rodger Kamenetz

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9780805241679 | Schocken Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The poet describes his relationship with his mother, Miriam Kamenetz, and explores the effect her battle with cancer had on his manhood

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9780805211108 | Schocken Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Ter'ra in'fir'ma, n.

My First Cousin Once Removed: Money, Madness, and the Family of Robert Lowell

A descendant of the aristocratic Lowell family of Massachusetts, which included the great poet Robert Lowell, describes her difficult and often amusing growth to adulthood, which was marred by a sense of privilege that had no financial basis whatsoever. Reprint. AB. NYT. PW.

By Sarah Payne Stuart

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9780060176891 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Boston family of the poet Robert Lowell, and their stuggles to keep up a patrician front in the face of economic disaster and mental illness

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9780060930363 | Perennial, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A descendant of the aristocratic Lowell family of Massachusetts, which included the great poet Robert Lowell, describes her difficult and often amusing growth to adulthood, which was marred by a sense of privilege that had no financial basis whatsoever.

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country

A poet's account of her journey toward adulthood follows her coming of age near the isolated logging camps of northern Idaho and considers how geography and faith shaped her sense of identity

By Kim Barnes

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9780385478205 | Doubleday, May 1, 1996, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A poet's account of her journey toward adulthood follows her coming of age near the isolated logging camps of northern Idaho and considers how geography and faith shaped her sense of identity

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9780385500111 | Doubleday, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.00

9780385478212 | Anchor Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A poet's account of her journey toward adulthood follows her coming of age near the isolated logging camps of northern Idaho

Short of a Good Promise

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By William Studebaker

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9780874221817 | Washington State Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $14.95

Shaking the Family Tree: A Remembrance

Product Description: Nonfiction. "For those of us who have followed Lewis Turco's inventive and engaging poems over the years, SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE is a welcome revelation. His reminiscences of youth and family offer warmth and insights into a body of work that tracks his coming to terms with a heritage and legacy of veracity...read more

By Lewis Turco

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9781884419164 | Bordighera Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Nonfiction.

Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir

A poetic memoir traces the author's awakening to his family's Armenian heritage, overshadowed by Turkey's genocide against Armenians in 1915

By Peter Balakian

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Hardcover:

9780465007042 | Basic Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A poetic memoir traces the author's awakening to his family's Armenian heritage, overshadowed by Turkey's genocide against Armenians in 1915

Paperback:

9780465010196 | Anv edition (Basic Books, February 4, 2009), cover price $16.99

9780767902540 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, June 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A poetic memoir traces the author's awakening to his family's Armenian heritage, overshadowed by Turkey's genocide against Armenians in 1915

Feather: A Child's Death and Life

Product Description: With great tenderness, poet and critic Robert Peters recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son Richard, a four-year-old called “Feather” by his sister Meredith and brother Rob. Feather returns home ill one day from nursery school, spends the afternoon in bed with his father and his stuffed toy seal, and dies that evening...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Robert Peters

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Hardcover:

9780299153601 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, May 15, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With great tenderness, poet and critic Robert Peters recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son Richard, a four-year-old called “Feather” by his sister Meredith and brother Rob.

Furthering My Education: A Memoir

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By William Corbett

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Hardcover:

9780944072745 | Zoland Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Book by Corbett, William

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