Sisters: An Anthology (Paris Press) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930464126 ISBN 13: 9781930464124

Publisher: Paris Press, 2009

Synopsis

This heartwarming and heart-wrenching collection of stories, memoirs, and poems celebrates the beautifully complex world of sisters. A relationship like no other, the unbreakable link between sisters can be at once sweet and loving, fierce and cruel. From childhood to old age, rivalry to devotion, hysterical laughter to tears of grief, the inescapable bonds between sisters create a unique journey. Sisters is for anyone who knows sisters, wishes they had a sister, adores her own sister, or would, on occasion, like to trade her in.

Contributors include: Joyce Armor, Margaret Atwood, Joan Baez, Claire Bateman, Simone de Beauvoir, Robin Becker, Jane Bowles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lan Samantha Chang, Marilyn Chin, Catherine Chung, Lucille Clifton, Clare Coss, Edwidge Danticat, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Rita Dove, Delia Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Glass, Barbara L. Greenberg, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Beverly Jensen, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ana Maria Jomolca, Mary Karr, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Tsipi Keller, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine Kumin, Jeanne M. Leiby, Audre Lorde, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Martha Rhodes, Muriel Rukeyser, Myra Shapiro, Ali Smith, Misty Urban, Alice Walker, Wendy Wasserstein and Daisy Zamora.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Freeman is the Director and Founder of Paris Press. She is the author of three books of poetry, Simon Says, Hyena, Autumn Sequence, and a new manuscript, Blue Structure. She lives in Ashfield, MA. Her younger sisters live in Atlanta and New York City.

Emily Wojcik is the Assistant Editor of Paris Press. She teaches writing and American literature at the University of Connecticut, and lives in Northampton, MA. Her younger sister lives in New York City.

Deborah Bull has spent her career in publishing, most recently as Director of Photosearch,Inc./Fair Street Productions (NYC), which produced illustrated books, including anthologies on a wide variety of subjects. She lives in New York City. Her younger sister lives in Los Angeles.

Review:

“With works by Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Daisy Zamora and other feminist literary leaders, this collection of poems, short stories and memoirs eloquently explores sibling love, adoration and rivalry. Read it with your sister and the two of you will be practicing your secret language again and arguing about that shirt she borrowed and never returned. Ah, sisters!"--Curve Magazine

“This fusion of fiction, poetry and memoir bubbles with childhood laughter, but also sounds notes of pain and loss.”--Ms Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Paris Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1930464126
• ISBN 13: 9781930464124
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Jan Freeman, Emily Wojcik, Deborah Bull