284 pages, 2003
$21.00 paper 0-87745-850-2
,978-0-87745-850-0
“This rich anthology tracks boomer girls from birth to, well, knowingness. . . . Their poems are about loss, loneliness, violence, and love. The writers in Boomer Girls touch themes that all generations experience but this generation can express for all of us—in ways that quietly bred Emily Dickinson, say, never could—what it is to be a girl baby, then adolescent, then woman growing up in America..” —Susan Stamberg, NPR's All Things Considered
In this timely and reflective anthology, the generation that sought to stay forever young reveals that midlife should mean more than jokes about thinning hair, creaking joints, and thickening waistlines. Midlife's insights—whether they be physical, spiritual, or emotional—are indeed startling, and who better than poets to deliver them?
Pamela Gemin is the author of, Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers and co-editor of Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation (Iowa 1999). A graduate of Vermont College's MFA in Writing Program, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
Contributors Include:
Kim Addonizio, Julia Alvarez, Doug Anderson, Dorothy Barresi, Bruce Bond, Nick Carbó, Denise Duhamel, Cornelius Eady, Louis Jenkins, Allison Joseph, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maureen Seaton, Gary Soto, David Wojahn
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