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Grace Paley
(Poet, Writer)
[December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007] |
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The Collected Stories (1994,
2007) -- Finalist National Book Award
This reissue of Grace Paley’s classic collection—a
finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language
as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her
characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again.
Whether writing about the love (and conflict) between parents and children
or between husband and wife, or about the struggles of aging single
mothers or disheartened political organizers to make sense of the world,
she brings the same unerring ear for the rhythm of life as it is actually
lived.
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Long Walks and Intimate Talks: Stories,
Poems and Paintings (1991)
This first collaboration of two long-time feminist
and antiwar activists is a wonderful melding of word and image that
creates a powerful call for world peace. Paley's poems and short fiction
and William's vivid watercolors depict the beauty and dignity of
"ordinary" lives from El Salvador to the Bronx, from New Hampshire to
Vietnam. Scenes and stories of domestic life, solitude, and nature are
interspersed with heart-wrenching images of women widowed and children
crippled by war and incarcerated by urban poverty, Here, too, are stories
and paintings of protest, joyous and defiant.
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Later the Same Day (1985)
Short stories
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute:
Stories (1974)
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The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
Short stories
Fidelity: Poems (2008)
Just before her death in 2007 at the age of
eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems.
Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life
in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems
are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently
readable. They explore the beginnings and ends of relationships, the ties
that bind siblings, the workings of dreams, the surreal strangeness of the
aging body—all imbued with her unique perspective and voice. Mournful and
nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, Fidelity is
Grace Paley’s passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving
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Begin Again: Collected Poems (2000)
A longtime teacher, activist, feminist, and
masterful writer of short fiction and essays, Paley is also an
accomplished poet. Combining her two previous collections with unpublished
work, Begin Again traces the career of a direct, attentive, and
always unpredictable poet. Whether describing the vicissitudes of life in
New York City or the hard beauty of rural Vermont, whether celebrating the
blessings of friendship or protesting against social injustice, her poems
brim with compassion and tough good humor.
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New and Collected Poems (1992)
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Leaning Forward - Poems (1985)
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Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in
America
(1996)
Forty female writers discuss, in poem, story, and
memory, the trials and tribulations of growing and maturing as a
Jewish-American female in a unique anthology.
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