NOTHING BETWEEN US is a collection of stunning poems about Berkeley in the 60s that examines the politics of race, nuances of the feminist movement, as well as the complexities of infidelity.
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Format:Paperback
This stunning book kept me up into the early morning hours. I read it cover to cover. The "prose poetry" format works brilliantly, somehow understating AND emphasizing the intensity of an inter-racial affair smack in the middle of the tumultuous sixties. As soon as I'm done with this review I'm buying a bunch of them and sending the book to all of my friends who cherish good writing and an honest, insightful examination of life and love in another time (and yet which feels so very relevant to today.)
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By Jeeves
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A lively, poetic journey through the California Sixties, written in prose poems but reads like a novel. Utterly absorbing. A love affair, a white teacher in a black school, powerfully detailed. Excellent writing.
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By D. V. Brown
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This book is more than just an awesome piece of literature. With "Nothing Between Us" Wendy Barker has invented a whole new genre. It's historical poetic non-fiction and writing at it's finest.Nothing Between Us
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A New Way of Writing
Wendy Barker pulls off something new In NOTHING BETWEEN US. She crosses genres by writing a novel in prose poems. A narrative requires movement along a story line. Read more
Published on August 2, 2010 by Charles B. Taylor
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A story told in its own special way with a powerful message
While no one bats an eye at interracial couplings today, fifty years ago it was much different. "Nothing Between Us" is a novel through prose poetry from Wendy Barker, telling the... Read more
Published on June 6, 2010 by Midwest Book Review
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Prose poem that reads like a page-turning novel
Superbly written and based on the author's experiences in '60s politically-wild Berkeley, "Nothing Between Us" includes a classroom scene in which two pimps break through the... Read more
Published on March 27, 2010 by Patricia R. Hickerson
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Mastery of Language
After the question, "what was the best poem you've ever written," Robert Bly would always reply, "the one I just finished." This answer can also apply to collections. Read more
Published on March 26, 2010 by P. C. McKinnon
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Finely Crafted Elegy to the Late Sixties
This is a story, a weaving, a collection of prose poems that together reveal the process of a young woman's self-discovery in the late sixties in Berkely. Read more
Published on January 20, 2010 by Mary Judith Infante
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