Words From the Cafe: An Anthology - Couverture souple

Balint, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0997946806 ISBN 13 : 9780997946802

Editeur : Raven Chronicles, 2016

Synopsis

Words From the Café: Voices of People in Recovery. This is an exciting and unusual collection of stories and poems written by people in recovery. Every Friday at Seattle’s Recovery Café, in downtown Seattle, people struggling with addiction, mental illness, trauma, and homelessness come together in Anna Bálint’s Safe Place Writing Circle to write and share writing. Here they discover their own unique voices and ways of shaping language to write stories and poems as part of reclaiming their lives. The literary range and breadth of human experience found in this collection flies in the face of prevailing stereotypes of some of the most marginalized members of our society. These are voices that need to be heard. In the forward, Killian Noe, Founding Director of Recovery Café, says, “The Safe Place Writing Circle is a small, intimate, healing community within the larger Recovery Café community. The level of knowing and being known and loving and being loved that takes place in that safe place is nothing short of astounding and transformative. You will catch a glimpse of the miracles that take place in that circle as you read the following expressions, and you will likely experience that you are standing on sacred ground.” Inside these pages we encounter themes as varied as living with multiple voices, and identities; memories of lost or missing parents, moments of nurture and times of madness; celebrations of music and dance, and old neighborhoods; prison life and institutionalized childhoods; growing up with a Holocaust cloud. Writers explore chance encounters with bears, blue herons, ex-wives, people who smile at us or don’t, unexpected welcomes, and making peace with the aging process. They discuss waking up in a hospital, sobering up, discovering books as best friends and Academia as a form of therapy. There is humor at every turn in these gems.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Bálint is the author of "Horse Thief," a collection of short fiction spanning cultures and continents that was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Two earlier books of poetry are “Out of the Box” and "spread them crimson sleeves like wings." Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including recently in Riverbabble and Sparrow Trill, Minerva Rising’s special issue on Race in America. Anna is an alumna of Hedgebrook Writers Retreat, the Jack Straw Writers Program, and has received awards/grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and 4Culture. In 2001 she received a Leading Voice award in recognition of her creative work with urban youth at El Centro de la Raza. She has taught creative writing for many years and in many places, including in prisons, El Centro de la Raza, Antioch University and Richard Hugo House. Currently, she is a teaching artist with Path With Art, and at Recovery Café in Seattle, where she founded and leads Safe Place, a weekly writing circle for people in recovery.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Raven Chronicles
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0997946806
• ISBN 13: 9780997946802
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible