{"product_id":"boomer-girls-pamela-gemin-9780877456872","title":"Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere were you between Betty Crocker and Gloria Steinem? With that question in mind poets Pamela Gemin and Paula Sergi began collecting the poems in \u003ci\u003eBoomer Girls, \u003c\/i\u003e an anthology of coming-of-age poems written by women born between 1945 and 1964, give or take a few years on either side. The answers to that question fill this volume with the energy, passion, heartbreak, and giddiness of women's lives from childhood to adolescence to middle age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eBoomer Girls\u003c\/i\u003e are by unknown, emerging, and established writers, women who participated in the second wave of feminism. From Sandra Cisneros' \"My Wicked Wicked Ways\" to Barbara Crooker's \"Nearing Menopause, I Run into Elvis at Shoprite,\" from Wendy Mnookin's \"Polio Summer\" to Kyoko Mori's \"Barbie Says Math Is Hard,\" these poems call for us to celebrate (in the words of poet Diane Seuss-Brakeman) \"glances, romances, beauty and guilt, regret, remorse, rebates and rejuvenations.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoomer Girls share a common culture, bound by their generation's political history, by pop icons like Barbie--that pedestaled Boomer Girl who's just turned forty--and by the music that's never stopped playing: Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, the Ronettes, Van Morrison, Patsy Cline, John Lennon. The Boomer poets in this feisty anthology speak with diverse voices and embody a wide range of experiences, yet their generation's universal images--the hula hoops, TV shows, finned automobiles, and other household gods of their youth--unite them in ways both hilarious and tender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela Gemin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0877456879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780877456872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.63w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1999 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/1999 pg. 49","brand":"Pamela Gemin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483734028543,"sku":"9780877456872","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71e06a2e-7ed4-4d41-9312-34ad05e50154.jpg?v=1778040304","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boomer-girls-pamela-gemin-9780877456872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}