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Sondra Melzer's poems reflect a lifetime of surviving and thriving. She plumbs her memory to write of a family plagued by alcoholism and held together by a mother's strength. She writes deeply about losses - a child in infancy, an adult son. Other poems tell of her long and happy marriage, a daughter who brings laughter and joy, and the rewards of a decades-long teaching career. This suite of poems, full of passion and intensity, go straight t...

Sondra Melzer's poems reflect a lifetime of surviving and thriving. She plumbs her memory to write of a family plagued by alcoholism and held together by a mother's strength. She writes deeply about losses - a child in infancy, an adult son. Other poems tell of her long and happy marriage, a daughter who brings laughter and joy, and the rewards of a decades-long teaching career. This suite of poems, full of passion and intensity, go straight t...

The Rhetoric of Rage explores the treatment of women from a contemporary feminist perspective and reveals the ways in which Parker's brittle humor reflects muted anger toward a patriarchal society. Through close examination of the texts, the work investigates the hidden discontents, the buried conflicts of women's lives and exposes the forces at work both implicitly and explicitly that shape their existence. The book locates links between the ...