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Still Life with Buddy, a novel told in fifty poems, explores the passionate friendship between a woman and a gay man who dies of AIDS. Both deeply personal and undeniably universal, the narrator tells her story with rage, humor, sadness, and most of all, undying love.
About the Author
Lesla Newman is a writer and editor with over twenty books to her credit. Poems in Still Life with Buddy were awarded a 1997 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ms. Newman received a Certificate in Poetics from Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she studied with Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Her literary awards include Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundations.
Ms. Newman's writing credits include Love Me Like You Mean It, Sweet Dark Places, Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear,Heather Has Two Mommies and a Letter to Harvey Milk. Her editing credits include A Loving Testimony: Remembering Loved Ones Lost to AIDS and My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems.
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Lesléa Newman is the author of 64 books for readers of all ages including the middle grade novel, HACHIKO WAITS, the poetry collection, STILL LIFE WITH BUDDY, the short story collection, A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK, and the children's books A SWEET PASSOVER, THE BOY WHO CRIED FABULOUS, THE BEST CAT IN THE WORLD, DONOVAN'S BIG DAY, and HEATHER HAS TWO MOMMIES. Her literary awards include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award finalists. A past poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, she is a faculty member of Spalding University's brief-residency MFA in Writing program.
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extraordinarily moving-- a tribute to friendship,
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This review is from: Still Life With Buddy: A Novel Told in Fifty Poems (Paperback)
Newman is a poet of great skill, heart and humor. The Buddy poems are emotionally powerful, but never sentimental. This is a book to be treasured by anyone who who has ever loved another person. It will also make you laugh out loud at the foibles of friendship.
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I am a negative person A very negative person I have always been a negative person My mother said, "Don't be so negative." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Sweet Dark Places by Leslea Newman in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Every Laugh A Tear by Lesléa Newman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Letter to Harvey Milk: Short Stories (Library of American Fiction) by Lesléa Newman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Allen Ginsberg (Gay & Lesbian Writers) by Neil Heims in Back Matter
- Beauty and the Beast (Well Loved Tales) by Ladybird Series in Back Matter
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- Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American by Maria Mazziotti Gillan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Romantic Fiction by Lesléa Newman by Lesléa Newman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Bedroom Eyes: Stories of Lesbians in the Boudoir by Lesléa Newman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience by Carol Lynda Hall on page 115, and page 123
- Signs of Love by Leslea Newman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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