Out of Order - Softcover

Sirota, Eileen Ivey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 164662307X ISBN 13: 9781646623075

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2020

Synopsis

With a therapist's heart and an activist's passion, the poems in Out of Order reveal our fractured world with wit, insight, candor and outrage.   We glimpse a woman's decision to have an abortion in the 1930's, a liberal's acknowledgement of her own white fragility and privilege ("my EZ pass white skin"), a speaker's memories of her late father taking her to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and how that impels her still. Sirota's poems are both political and personal, ricocheting from the election of Obama to the Women's March to the losses of aging and the gifts and disturbances of memory. She ponders the limits of monogamous love (Larger Cages, More Desire) and marks the progression from the first snow of the season to the fourth one, just days later, in "swelling stacks of dirty cocoa cups." Her collection includes all generations from the new mother holding her infant, "the scent of talc rising like yeast in new-made bread" to memories of a beloved grandmother. With a tone both intimate, knowing and hopeful, she amplifies the life and experience of a contemporary woman.

About this title

About the Author

Eileen Ivey Sirota is a psychotherapist, poet and potter. Her poems have appeared in District Lines, Calyx, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, NewVerseNews and elsewhere. In addition to practicing psychotherapy, Eileen is on the faculty at GWU School of Medicine, teaching prospective doctors to know their patients' stories as well as the mechanics of their bodies. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 164662307X
• ISBN 13: 9781646623075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44