When home is not safe: writings on domestic verbal, emotional and physical abuse
I. Home -- Weather ; Drafting a Flight Plan / Heidi Seaborn -- Hit Me / Jennifer Jenkins -- The Ballet / Susan April -- Anger Is an Arrow ; Stick Figure Family ; The Secret Goldfish / Howie Good -- What's True of the Garden Pea / Emma Brousseau -- Fissure / Wren Tuatha -- Balcony, 3 a.m. / Che...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina
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[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 21 A 1550 |
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| Summary: | I. Home -- Weather ; Drafting a Flight Plan / Heidi Seaborn -- Hit Me / Jennifer Jenkins -- The Ballet / Susan April -- Anger Is an Arrow ; Stick Figure Family ; The Secret Goldfish / Howie Good -- What's True of the Garden Pea / Emma Brousseau -- Fissure / Wren Tuatha -- Balcony, 3 a.m. / Chelsea Clammer -- Her Father's Daughter / Nina Fosati -- holy/days / RK Taylor -- You Smiled ; Michael / Lynn Magill -- Words 'Too Dark' for the Father's Day Edition / Cynthia Steele -- Packs ; Drowned ; The Best of a Bad Year / Kurt Olsson -- Ever Closer / J. Flynn Doncaster -- II.Trauma -- Abroad / Lindsay Erdman -- Kintsugi / LeeAnn Olivier -- Girl in Rape Kit / Aimee Parkison -- A Slice of Summer / Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi -- Wine Song ; How to Survive Abuse ; A Steady Whip / Mary Ellen Talley -- Voices from the Streets / Ogu Chukwuebuka Kizito -- Mandamientos: Lover to Beloved ; I Forgive / Carolyne Wright -- Kitchen Table / Paul Rousseau -- It wasn't the first time he hit me / Jonaki -- Reading the Lines / Darlene Goetzman -- From Where I Live Now / Anne Spollen -- Why Are They Fighting? / Izzy Wilson -- When His Words Became a Drug / Christina Hoag -- The Fixer / Toni Felella -- Beginnings / Sally Quon -- His face right in my face; The Weight of Words in Our Hands Like Water ; This is what happened / Gayelene Carbis -- A Game of Cat and Mouse / Kelsey Brown -- Excerpt--The Queen in the Mirror / Polly Buckingham -- III. PTSD -- Pine / Tina Barry -- Counting Raindrops / Roxanne James -- Pearls Before Swine / Lillo Way -- Stone Lies / Sally Showalter -- Fire Line / H.M. Clark -- i keep secrets stashed in a lock box ; Abandoned Doll ; cold sheets ; secrets stashed in tiny orange pill bottles / Danielle Hark -- Memoir Excerpts ; Memoir Excerpts II / Lexy Courneya -- The Out of Body Girl / Joyce Hayden -- Eiffel Tower ; On a Hot Summer Night for Revenge ; The Truth of Lies, The Lies of Truth ; Sharp / Marjorie Maddox -- IV. In Retrospect -- The Woman Who Held Her Tongue / Susan Landgraf -- House of Cards ; A Picnic / Carol Smallwood -- Two-Year Slide in Brooklyn Heights / Rosanne Ehrlich -- Saddle Up ; Signal / Linera Lucas -- Weaving Rope / Lindsey Heatherly -- My First Online Love / Robert Kingett -- Tug of War / Alice Ting Liu -- Trellis ; Years Later / Judith Skillman -- Lost in Transmission / Jeff Burd -- Last Supper / Mary Zelinka -- Red Flag / Sailor Holladay -- Heretic / Alison Stone -- Pushed Out of the Chevy, She Adjusts Her Miniskirt / Tina Kelley -- Twenty Years of Rain / Meggie Royer. "Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher, academic, or social worker who wants to help those who are suffering. Or maybe you are in an abusive relationship and need to know that you are not alone. The poetry, memoirs, and creative nonfiction pieces collected here tell of real incidents of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse, as well as of those who left destructive and unsalvageable relationships. The beauty and truth of the language, as well as the honesty and courage on the page, set this anthology apart from self-help manuals and academic treatises on domestic violence. This collection offers a path forward to healing, health, and fulfillment, using the power of art to give voice where voice has been stifled, forgotten, overlooked, or denied"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | ix,211 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781476683928 |