When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

by Martz, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9781576010785
• ISBN10: 1576010783
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Papier-Mache Press

Summary

This title is the No. 1 selling book in this category to older readers. The large type edition is particularly welcome to many of these readers.

Author Biography

Sandra Kay Martz founded Papier-Mache Press in 1984. Papier-Mache Press was known for publishing accessible books which presented important social issues through enduring works of beauty, grace, and strength, and created a bridge of understanding between the mainstream audience and those who might not otherwise be heard. As an editor and publisher, she has compiled several successful Papier-Mache Press anthologies including If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies, and I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted, a book that explores the powerful feelings women have about their bodies.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Introduction	xii
Warning	1	(1)
Jenny Joseph
Sitty Victoria	2	(11)
Vicki Salloum
Grandma Sits Down	13	(1)
Rick Kempa
Aunt Marie at 99	14	(1)
Tom Benediktsson
Here, Take My Words	15	(5)
Karen Brodine
The Trouble Was Meals	20	(2)
Elizabeth Bennett
Like Mother, Like Daughter	22	(3)
Susan S. Jacobson
Near Places, Far Places	25	(19)
Sarah Barnhill
The Changes	44	(17)
Fionna Perkins
For My Mother	61	(2)
Michele Wolf
A Place for Mother	63	(11)
Joanne Seltzer
Birthday Portrait in Muted Tones	74	(1)
Dori Appel
Old Woman	75	(1)
Billie Lou Cantwell
A Woman at Forty	75	(1)
Enid Shomer
New Directions	76	(2)
Susan A. Karz
Late Autumn Woods	78	(1)
Rina Ferrarelli
Athlete Growing Old	79	(1)
Grace Butcher
Body	80	(1)
Lillian Morrison
I Know the Mirrors	81	(1)
Janice Townley Moore
Investment of Worth	82	(2)
Terri L. Jewell
Gracefully Afraid	84	(12)
Mary Anne Ashley
words never spoken	96	(1)
Doris Vanderlipp Manley
Clearing the Path	97	(1)
Elisavietta Ritchie
Dear Paul Newman	98	(1)
Marie Kennedy Robins
Reaching toward Beauty	99	(1)
Hyacinthe Hill
Love at Fifty	100	(1)
Marcia Woodruff
A Letter from Elvira	101	(1)
Bettie Sellers
Tin of Tube Rose	102	(8)
Sandra Redding
Survived by His Wife	110	(2)
Margaret Flanagan Eicher
Making the Wine	112	(9)
Marisa Labozzetta
Planting	121	(2)
Cinda Thompson
Come to Me	123	(1)
Sue Saniel Elkind
Two Willow Chairs	124	(9)
Jess Wells
Maybe at Eighty?	133	(1)
S. Minanel
Endurance	134	(2)
Fran Portley
Becoming Sixty	136	(1)
Ruth Harriet Jacobs
Social Security	137	(1)
Barbara Bolz
Litany for a Neighbor	138	(1)
Ellin Carter
The Wildcat	139	(3)
Catherine Boyd
Out of the Lion's Belly	142	(16)
Carole L. Glickfeld
Hurricane	158	(1)
Edna J. Guttag
Oh, That Shoe Store Used to Be Mine	159	(3)
Randeane Doolittle Tetu
Livvy Caldwell	162	(1)
Barbara Nector Davis
Tending the Flock	163	(1)
Jennifer Lagier
Translations	164	(2)
Margaret H. Carson
To an Old Woman	166	(2)
Rafael Jesus Gonzalez
Occupation	168	(1)
Bonnie Michael
The Pianist	169	(1)
Carolyn J. Fairweather Hughes
All the Time	170	(3)
Michael Andrews
Old Women	173	(2)
Barbara Lau
Bag Ladies in L.A.	175	(1)
Savina A. Roxas
glory	176	(2)
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Bag Ladies	178	(1)
Ruth Harriet Jacobs
Endings	179	(1)
Lynn Kozma
The Thugs	180	(2)
Mura Dehn
Last Visit to Grandmother	182	(3)
Enid Shomer
Words for Alice After Her Death	185	(4)
Angela Peckenpaugh
The Coming of Winter	189	(1)
Shirley Vogler Meister
Post Humus	190	(2)
Patti Tana
Life's Rainbow	192	(2)
Sheila Banani
About the Contributors	194	(10)
Colophon	204