My Father's Love: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl, Volume 1 - Softcover

Doubiago, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984130403 ISBN 13: 9780984130405

Publisher: Wild Ocean Press, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

Sharon Doubiago's memoir, MY FATHER'S LOVE: PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS A YOUNG GIRL, VOLUME 1 (Wild Ocean Press, 2009), is a finalist in the Northern California Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction, 2010. Volume Two is forthcoming. Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) received the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poet Award and was a finalist in the Paterson New Jersey Poetry Prize. She has written two dozen books of poetry and prose, most notably the epic poem HARD COUNTRY (West End Press, 1999), the book-length poem South America Mi Hija (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), which was nominated twice for the National Book Award, and the story collections EL NINO (Lost Roads Press, 1989) and The Book of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Graywolf Press, 1988), which was selected to the Oregon Culture Heritage list: Literary Oregon, 100 Books, 1800-2000. She holds three Pushcart Prizes for poetry and fiction and the Oregon Book Award for Poetry for Psyche Drives the Coast and a California Arts Council Award. She's an online mentor in Creative Writing for the University of Minnesota (Split Rock) and a board member of PEN/Oakland. For two decades she has been writing Son, a memoir about the mother-son relationship, for which she has received two Oregon Institute of Literary Art Fellowships. Her new collection of memoir stories, Why She Loved Him, is circulating. She has published over a hundred essay--from the personal and creative, to the scholarly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wild Ocean Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0984130403
• ISBN 13: 9780984130405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480