Alison Hawthorne Deming, Steve Orlen and Richard Shelton

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 7:00pm

This Valentine’s month, come celebrate the flipside of romance!

Join us for readings by
Alison Hawthorne Deming,
Steve Orlen
and Richard Shelton,
all of whose poems are included in the anthology,
It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Break Up,
edited by Jerry Williams. 

This touching, angry, and hilarious anthology gives a fresh voice to the all too familiar experience of ending a relationship. Jerry Williams compiled over 90 poems that create a therapeutic and transformative, edgy yet sincere collection. The book incorporates work from as many different perspectives as possible (female and male, gay and straight, innocent and guilty) in order to explore the exquisite pain of heartbreak.

By Jerry Williams
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781590202821
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Overlook Press, 12/01/2009
A touching, angry, and hilarious anthology of the many facets of ruptured romance. With breakup and divorce rates so high in the United States, who wouldn't want to read an eclectic volume of poems on the subject? Therapeutic and transformative, edgy yet sincere, enlightening, wideranging, female and male, gay and straight, innocent and guilty, "It's Not You, It's Me: The Poetry of Breakup" incorporates work from as many different perspectives as possible in order to explore the exquisite pain of heartbreak. Such top-shelf contributors as National Book Award finalist Kim Addonizio, bestselling author Denis Johnson, former poet laureate Mark Strand, Edward Hirsch, Maxine Kumin, David Lehman, and many others proudly offer up their wisdom on the various pains (and humors) of heartbreak. In this stunning collection, readers will not find false hope, but the real hope of genuine sympathy in love, hate, fury, and recuperation.