Sleeping with one eye open : women writers and the art of survival /
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| Imprint: | Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1999. |
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| Description: | xxi, 221 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4077932 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Waking Myths, Waking Words. The Woman Who Slept with One Eye Open: Notes on Being a Writer / Judith Ortiz Cofer. Poetry Began Me / Marilyn Kallet. Inking In the Myth / Alice Friman. Listening for the Singing Goose / Amy Friedman Fraser. Manipulations in the Darkroom / Barbara Goldberg. Fire, Wax, Smoke / Sandra Benitez. Five A.M.: Writing as Ritual / Judith Ortiz Cofer
- 2. Writing in No-Time. Writing in No-Time / Lucy Ferriss. Excerpts from a Talk by Tillie Olsen / Tillie Olsen. Doing What You Will Do: An Interview with Lucille Clifton by Marilyn Kallet / Lucille Clifton. Hedging Bets on Motherhood / Pamela Walker. The Artist as Single Mother / Katherine Smith. Writing Between Dreams / Elaine Zimmerman. Writing Fellini / Colleen J. McElroy. Walking into Poetry / Patricia Clark. The Prime Necessity / Denise Levertov
- 3. Sounds of Hazard and Survival. Writing the Impossible / Hilda Raz. The Elephant in My Living Room: Depression and the Writing Life / Lynna Williams. Selective Listening and Resistance: A Writer's Capacity to Thrive / Mary C. Lewis. The Glass Cage / Aleida Rodriguez. Sounds of Hazard and Survival / Colette Inez. Finding the Groove / Joy Harjo
- 4. The Crucible of Family. The Writer in the Family / Julie Checkoway. The Pure Place / Tess Gallagher. Why Write? / Amy Ling. Earning Virginia Woolf's Room / Eileen Tabios. Rescue from Within: Do You Wish to Save? / Linda Parsons Marion. My Father's Legacy, or Why I Write / Janice Eidus.