Artemis in Echo Park: Poetry [Paperback]

Eloise Klein Healy (Author)

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The Amazons
Another Island
Another Poet Writes About Love
Artemis
Artemis In Echo Park
Behind The Garden
Cactus
Cactus Girls
Ceremony
Changing The Oil
Chinois
The City Beneath The City
The Concepts Of Integrity And Closure In Poetry As I ...
From Los Angeles Looking South
From Space
Georgia
The Girl
Going Down To The Sunless Sea
Hawks
I Live Where I Live
In A Little While And The Dog Crying
Into Eternity
The Introductions
Like A Wick, I Thought
Moon On The Porch
Moroni On The Mormon Temple/ Angel On The Wall
Now I Find My House Is Not Safe
Only The Moonlight Matters
The Path Back To The Heart
Patterns
Payment
The Peahens
Public Water
The Real Bears Have Gone North
Roofs
Seeing Agnes Varda's The Vagabond
The Shape Of Female Desire
She Claims She Does Not Know
The Singing
Snakes
Some Love Stories
Springtime
Stranded
This Art, Your Life
This Is A Year To Keep And Give Away
This Is Not Really A House At All
This Place Named For Califia
Toltecs
Two Centuries In One Day
Up To Topanga
The Valley Of The Amazons
What It Was Like The Night Cary Grant Died
Wild Mothers
Wisteria
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Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Firebrand Books (April 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932379907
• ISBN-13: 978-0932379900
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,616,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ELOISE KLEIN HEALY is the author of BUILDING SOME CHANGES(Beyond Baroque Foundation NewBook Award), A PACKET BEATING LIKE A HEART (rara avis), ORDINARY WISDOM (Paradise Press/reissued by Red Hen Press), WOMEN'S STUDIES CHRONICLES (The Inevitable Press Chapbook Series), ARTEMIS IN ECHO PARK (Firebrand Books), PASSING (Red Hen Press) and THE ISLANDS PROJECT: POEMS FOR SAPPHO (Red Hen Press). She is also the featured artist on three spoken word recordings.

Healy's work is frequently anthologized in collections such as Another City: Writing From Los Angeles; California Poetry: From The Gold Rush To The Present; Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals; Grand Passion: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond; The Geography Of Home: California's Poetry of Place; and The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Dorland Arts Colony and fellowships from The California Arts Council, California State University Northridge, and a COLA Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles.

Healy was the Founding Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. She directed the Women's Studies Program at California State University Northridge and taught in the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman's Building in Los Angeles.

Healy was co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture and is founding editor of ARKTOI BOOKS, an imprint of Red Hen Press. She received the Horace Mann Award from Antioch University Los Angeles where she is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Myth & Cityscape, January 14, 2005

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Karen K. Lewis (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Artemis in Echo Park: Poetry (Paperback)

This collection of poetry explores the mythical territory between nature and city, between animal and human, between contemporary culture and timeless rituals. The range of these poems is remarkable, from a moment at a restaurant in "Chinois," to a contemplation of motherhood and childlessness in "Wild Mothers," and "Artemis," to political testimony in "Toltecs" and "From Los Angeles Looking South," or homage to sexuality in "Cactus Girls." The poet lives in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, and her poems celebrate a sense of being alive in this particular landscape-a place of arroyo, billboard, rattlesnake, automobile-that is constantly changing, even in the space of an evening's drive from one place to another.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars By A True Echo Park Local, August 25, 2001

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J. Zambrano "Hokule'a" (Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Artemis in Echo Park: Poetry (Paperback)

Healy has not only lived in Echo Park for a number of years, she has a strong local and literary following for her evocative writings. "Artemis in Echo Park" truly brings forth the magic and mystery of this place.