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9780807065150

The Leap Years: Women Reflect on Change, Loss and Love

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807065150

  • ISBN10:

    0807065153

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Random House Inc
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Summary

Writing with Unerring Honesty and Humor, Thirty Women Offer a Beautiful Testament to the Wisdom and Maturity That Arise From the Tumult of Transition. Poised Mid-Leap Between Past and Future, Hope and Pain, Ready to Vault Into the Unknown, These Women Have Grappled With Change and Have Emerged Transformed.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
I Some Bit of Love to chew On 3(70)
The Underfed Human Heart
3(4)
ADRIAN BLEVINS
On Loving Ethan
7(12)
LAURA S. DISTELHEIM
Some Bit of Love to Chew On
19(7)
JOAN HALPERIN
Jukebox Lazarus
26(5)
RHONDA C. POYNTER
The Race
31(3)
MARIA EXPOSITO GLASS
The Night Ahead
34(4)
JOAN SHADDOX ISOM
Ousia: The Realness of Things
38(5)
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Studying Perspective on a Saturday Afternoon
43(5)
BARBARA BRENT BROWER
Interstices
48(11)
MAXINE KUMIN
Crushed Out
59(14)
PATRICIA CUMBIE
II Changing Terrain 73(76)
An Outing with Isabelle
73(5)
JOAN ARCARI
Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred-Year-Old Eggs: Poor Chinese Feasting
78(8)
SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM
Bordering on Truth
86(5)
DIANA ANHALT
What It Means to Stay
91(6)
MARGARET LYNN BROWN
Dancing the Cancer Down to Dust
97(16)
JULIE MOULDS RYBICKI
Changing Terrain
113(3)
DIANE GLANCY
Crossing Over
116(12)
KATHLEEN CARR
Toast
128(4)
K EDGINGTON
Loud Silence
132(8)
CHRISTINE HALE
Running Woman
140(9)
TRICIA LANDE
III Recreation 149(76)
Seeing Stars
149(8)
MARY ANNE MAIER
Come to the Window
157(3)
DIANE ACKERMAN
Sharing a Room
160(8)
BETH KEPHART
Migration of the Heart
168(8)
DEBORAH FRUIN
The Early Land
176(2)
JANE BROX
Fissures in the Moon: Sharing Pain in Order to Heal
178(19)
GLORIA WADE-GAYLES
Querida Nuria
197(5)
JOAN LINDGREN
Moodswings and Midlife: Nearly Getting to Nirvana
202(5)
ELAYNE CLIFT
Under the Thumb: How I Became a Poet
207(11)
MARGARET ATWOOD
Re-creation
218(7)
SUSAN MARSH
Credits 225(2)
Contributors 227(8)
Acknowledgment 235

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