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978-0-9708972-0-6
0-9708972-0-0
$13.95 paperback
6 x 9
110 pages
Novello Festival Press
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This memorable collection of
writings celebrates the survival and perseverance of women. The project
was born in a poetry workshop at a church in Charlotte where, at the
urging of her minister, Dorothy Perry Thompson began teaching the art of
poetry to a group of women moving from welfare to self-sufficiency. Many
were still searching for work and struggling to raise small children on
their own, but Dr. Thompson was moved by the power of the women’s
writings, and by the universal themes that every poem seemed to evoke.
She gathered those poems
together in a book, and surrounded them with work by some of the most
respected poets of our time. Susan B. Ludvigson, Eugene B. Redmond,
Gloria Wade Gayles and Dr. Thompson herself join more than 35 others in
lifting their voices, sometimes dark, sometimes triumphant, but always
strong. Out of the Rough cuts across racial and economic lines to
explore the issues that many women face, and to celebrate their spirit
and will to survive.
about the editor
Editor and acclaimed poet Dorothy Perry Thompson, Ph.D., is
associate professor of English at Winthrop University, in Rock Hill,
South Carolina. This is her fourth book.
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