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Write Where You Are: How to Use Writing to Make Sense of Your Life a Guide for

Children's Books

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Education & Reference

Tandem Library

MY TREE CALLED Life

I cannot figure out who I am as a body these days, writes Caryn Mirriam- Goldberg in this powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam- Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting with an eclectic Midwest community, the land and sky, and a body undergoing vast renovation. Along the way, she swims with stingrays in the Gulf of Mexico, searches for cream puff s for a Pennsylvania funeral, leads a group fi ghting to protect ecologically-essential land in Kansas, and helps students fi nd their own voice in Vermont. In searching for a new definition of the erotic through our awareness of nature, this memoir illuminates how our bodies are our most local address on the earth.

The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Ice Cube Books

Poetry from 38 poets: Sue Brannan Walker - Alabama Peggy Shumaker - Alaska David Mason - Colorado Mary Crow - Colorado Dick Allen - Connecticut JoAnn Balingit - Delaware Fleda Brown - Delaware Kevin Stein - Illinois Norbert Krapf - Indiana Joyce Brinkman - Indiana Mary Swander - Iowa Marvin Bell - Iowa Robert Dana - Iowa Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg - Kansas Denise Low - Kansas Jonathan Holden - Kansas Betsy Sholl - Maine David Clewell - Missouri Walter Bargen - Missouri W.E. Butts - New Hampshire Marie Harris - New Hampshire Larry Woiwode - North Dakota Jim Barnes - Oklahoma Paulann Petersen - Oregon Lisa Starr - Rhode Island Marjory Wentworth - South Carolina David Allen Evans - South Dakota Paul Ruffi n - Texas Katharine Coles - Utah Kenneth W. Brewer - Utah David Lee - Utah Kelly Cherry - Virginia Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda - Virginia Samuel Green - Washington Irene McKinney - West Virginia Bruce Dethlefsen - Wisconsin Marilyn L. Taylor - Wisconsin David Romtvedt - Wyoming

An Endless Skyway: Poetry from the State Poets Laureate

Literature & Fiction

Denise Low

Marilyn L. Taylor

Walter Bargen (editors)

Poetry

Meet Deborah Shapiro, a New Jersey teenage photographer whose parents' outrageous divorce lands her in the biggest flea market in the free world, a Greek diner with immigration issues, a New York City taxi company, a radical suburban synagogue, a hippie-owned boutique, bowling alleys, beaches, and bagel shops. As her home explodes, a first love, a series of almost-mothers, and a comical collection of eccentric mentors show Deborah how to make art out of a life, and life from the wreckage of a broken home. Join Kansas poet laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg as she explores loss, grief, and bad behavior with humor and imagination. This coming of age story illuminates how a daring heart can turn a broken girl into a woman strong enough to craft a life of art, soul, and beauty.

The Divorce Girl: A Novel of Art and Soul

Genre Fiction

Ice Cube Press

The sky is made of rivers before and after they became rivers,... (Caryn writes in Chasing Weather. Weather) ... subtly shapes our days, infuses our moods and interactions, and at times, completely re-orients our lives. Catching moments of stunning beauty and surprising shifts in the sky helps make the vibrant and variable world more visible to us, and shows us how to truly see where and who we are. This fascinating book merges storm chasing photos of Stephen Locke, and the poetry Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.

Chasing Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word & Image

Stephen Locke

Ice Cube Press, LLC

In this modern day retelling of the Exodus, Miriam wanders the political and spiritual deserts of a changing American nation. She feels torn between her roots as the Jewish daughter of a Black father and white mother, along with her yearnings for home, and her two brothers: Aaron, a successful New York City attorney and Moses, an autistic Kansas artist. Miriam is an astonishing cook and singer, with a knack for showing up to feed and help people at landmark events—including People’s Park during the Summer of Love, the Wounded Knee encampment in South Dakota, the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, the Oklahoma City terrorist attack, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. As she seeks the promised land, she shows people, and eventually herself, how to turn the chaos and despair of our times into music, meals, and miracles.

Miriam's Well: A Modern Day Exodus

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