In this timely and reflective anthology, the generation that sought to stay forever young reveals that midlife should mean more than jokes about thinning hair, creaking joints, and thickening waistlines. Midlife's insights—whether they be physical, spiritual, or emotional—are indeed startling, and who better than poets to deliver them?
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“This rich anthology tracks boomer girls from birth to, well, knowingness. . . . Their poems are about loss, loneliness, violence, and love. The writers in Boomer Girls touch themes that all generations experience but this generation can express for all of us—in ways that quietly bred Emily Dickinson, say, never could—what it is to be a girl baby, then adolescent, then woman growing up in America..” —Susan Stamberg, NPR's All Things Considered
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Pamela Gemin is the author of Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers and co-editor of Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation (Iowa 1999). A graduate of Vermont College's MFA in Writing Program, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
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Do Baby Boomers grow up, grow old--finally come of age? The answer of course is absolutely. Editor Gemin says that many contributors in this volume were reluctant to be classified as middle aged, yet that "certain age" has become its own symbol of a time filled with so much promise and possibility. Tony Hoagland, in his poem "Are You Experienced" says, after watching a Jimi Hendrix concert that:
... as I studied the fresco of vomit on concrete, that one day this moment cleaned up and polished would itself become a kind of credential. 191 These are poems of leaving and coming home, poems of addiction and excess, poems of redemption, of coming to terms, of politics, poems of being lost and being found again and again. These are poems of aging. Arranged thematically, Gemin has chosen poems rendered in experience. These experiences are transmitted through sharp, sometimes excruciating detail. While most poems in this volume are narrative, nearly all speak to the passing of time--a passage that is all at once sad and joyous--and often bewildering. While writing these pieces may have been redemptive for many poets, reading these poems can be, in many ways, restorative, proof that all we stood for, all we believed in, has not been lost. In her poem, "Antilamentation," Dorianne Laux's asks that we regret nothing of those days, not the mistakes nor even the triumphs. "You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake . . . Relax . . . Don't bother remembering / any of it. Let's stop here, under the lit sign / on the corner, and watch all the people walk by (200). Highly recommended for Boomers and wannabes alike.
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