fran abrams

Arranging Words is Abrams' second chapbook collection. Like her first chapbook, The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras, this book is a series of light-hearted poems that asks the reader to look at the world from a new perspective. These poems approach letters, words, and everyday...

In Gathering Memories, Collecting Dust, ordinary moments become the markers of an extraordinary life: a newborn observed with wonder, a lost toy bunny, a first day of school, a daughter leaving for college, a mother's memory beginning to fade.Spanning eight decades, this reflective poetry...

I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir is an autobiographical story told in poetry through the eyes of a woman whose life paralleled the second wave of feminism, a movement that began in the 1960's and focused on equal opportunities and equal pay...

Blending interviews with those most closely affected together with views from key commentators and experts the author creates a vivid picture of a system and societal failure; a failure both that is at once both embarrassing and avoidable. Author: Fran AbramsISBN-10: 0415483956ISBN-13: 9780415483957Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

As recently as 100 years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked grueling hours in unlit factories; girls were sold into sexual slavery with dolls still in their grasp; and boys at schools like Rugby and Harrow...