Announcing New Anthology from Holy Cow! Press, edited by Jim Perlman.
Just received my contributor's copy, and it is gorgeous!
Here's a blurb:
Home is one the the great themes of literature, of human beings, of the
animal kingdom altogether. Odysseus finds his way home to Penelope, and
arctic terms fly thousands of miles to return to their nesting grounds.
The main danger for authors exploring this primal subject is
sentimentality; the writers anthologized here, however, remember that
home is not only our refuge and snug harbor but also a place where we
get bored, abused, battered, and bent. It couldn't be more important:
home often seems, indeed, 'the heart of all that is.” At the very least,
it's a place where we can learn, in Susan Elbe's memorable phrase, 'to
shoot this tin-can loneliness / off fence posts.” Farzana Marie points
out that a poem is a kind of house, and it's true of the essays here,
too. Come on in. Make yourself at home.”--Bart Sutter, author of The
Reindeer Camps
This engaging anthology on the theme of home includes
twenty personal essays and nearly eighty poems from a wide variety of
social and cultural perspectives, as unique and diverse as the authors
who have written them. Herein is previously uncollected writings by
Joseph Bruchac, Jane Yolen, Marge Piercy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Roberta
Hill, Mark Vinz and many others. * * I'm one of the many others.
In a
world of increasing change and mobility, these writings explore our
most fundamental concerns for self-identity: what is our home, where
have we come from, who are we?
