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A criminal released from death row hints he was guilty of murder all along, a special needs man raised on nothing but sermons attempts to explain COINTELPRO in black protests, a woman abducted and forced to raise her half-alien children remembers everything, Chinese–looking agents hired by the U.S. to overthrow China, kill Chinese soldiers outside Tiananmen Square. Tall As You Are Tall between Them is an exercise in possibility. Where many reporters shock and numb their audiences with a relentless stream of violence and insanity while skipping or inadequately addressing inconvenient questions, Christain starts with these questions, zooms in, hovers, and rewinds. The bizarre, disturbing, and uncomfortable scenarios presented in her poems are written with an earnestness that possesses just the right degree of plausibility to leave the reader asking time and time again, “What if?” At first glance, Tall As You Are Tall Between Them is otherworldly sci-fi horror. In the end, the book is too familiar. In fact, it is our very own—the underbelly and in-between of a shifting and sliding world where much meaning is found through context and brain chemistry. All the while, Christain teaches us to peel back the layers, to be fearless—“to jump towards the atom blast if [we’re] going to be forced to fall back anyway,” and to enjoy the ride.
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CELEBRATE WOMEN’S HISTORY IN WRITING
From colonial times, women have been at the forefront of significant developments in the literary community and the book world. Despite this important history, no single publication has provided an overview of women’s roles in writing, publishing, bookselling, and librarianship. With Women in the Literary Landscape, in honor of its Centennial, the Women’s National Book Association breaks new ground with a narrative connecting women’s contributions in these fields with the relevant social history.
See the Women’s National Book Association site for more information, and to check out the essential organization’s work!
Praise for Women in the Literary Landscape
“Brilliantly written and researched . . . . every page is filled with surprises, enchantments, and exciting new information of significance.”
–From the foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook, biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt
“I felt enormously proud as I read this book. It’s well-written and wonderfully researched and it made my heart sing. Reading about the ways women have been part of our literary heritage from the beginning was fascinating and inspiriting. It made me realize how brave and determined these women were, how energetic, how indefatigable . . .Brava to women booksellers, and to all the other women who have been so invaluable to the culture of books in this country. And brava to the WNBA for producing this marvelous volume.”
–Roxana Robinson, author (Sparta, 2014) and former head of Author’s Guild
The American world of books would have been poor indeed without the many significant contributions women have made throughout our country’s relatively short history. It is so good to have them gathered together and brought to life in this excellent book. Congratulations to WNBA, and may this vital organization flourish and prosper for at least another hundred years!
–Deirdre Bair, biographer Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, and others
Additional information
| Editors | Doris Weatherford et al. |
|---|---|
| Description | History–PB |
| Pages | Pages – 290 |
| ISBN | ISBN: 978-1-936196-82-1 |
| LCCN | LCCN: 2017954261 |
| Available March 15 | Available March 15, 2018 |
