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Memories Flow in Our Veins

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Forty Years of Women’s Writing from CALYX

Edited by the CALYX Editorial Collective

In collaboration with Ooligan Press

Memories Flow in Our Veins commemorates the CALYX legacy and their contribution to the landscape of literature, while exploring the perennial themes of place and politics, aging and caregiving, and discovery and self-reckoning.

Featuring poetry and fiction by some of the most renowned and decorated women writers of the past four decades including Ursula K. Le Guin, Alicia Ostriker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Barbara Kingsolver, Memories Flow In Our Veins is a triumphant showcase of the work published by CALYX Press through the years.

Category: Product ID: 2187

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Brenna Crotty is the Senior Editor at CALYX. The CALYX Editorial Collective has received many awards, including the Stewart H. Holbrook Award from Oregon Literary Arts.

THE SPACE WE OCCUPY
Ingrid Wendt Cinderella Dream at Ten
Barbara Garden Baldwin Coupled
Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Ursula K. Le Guin At the Party
Alicia Ostriker The Idea of Making Love
Jean Hegland The Crone I Will Become
Lorraine Healy Boning
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Magnificat
Donna Miscolta Strong Girls
CHIEFLY POLITICS, LOWLY GODS
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Burning Bride
Charlotte Watson Sherman Killing Color
Haunani-Kay Task Waikīkī
Sandra Kohler Why a Woman Can’t Be Pope
Mary Beth Deline Melissa Is My Name
Sue Pace The Rash
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Light Skin
Willa Schneberg You Know the Killing Fields
Teresa R. Funke Freer Than I’ve Ever Been
Allison Green Ratification
THE UNLEVEL TABLE
Barbara Kingsolver The Middle Daughter
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni My Mother Combs My Hair
Marianne Villanueva The Decedent Is Initially Viewed Unclothed
Monique De Varennes Cabeza
April Selley Mrs. Santa Decides to Move to Florida
Kristin Kearns The Weight of Me
Penelope Scambly Schott Crow Mercies
Jennifer Burd Recalculating
I BELIEVE I AM BEGINNING
Barbara Garden Baldwin Relics
Barbara Kingsolver Remember the Moon Survives
Frances Payne Adler Gravity Reversed
Haunani-Kay Trask Nā Wāhine Noa
Mary Cuffe Perez Life Is a Dance
Elizabeth McLagan And the Eyes of the Blind Shall Be Opened
Sarah Lantz Making Do: A Fable
Ada Molinoff From White Space to Black Letter: Taking My Place in the Women’s Torah
Margarita Donnelly Home
Reviews

“Touching, haunting, funny, and transformative: the stories collected in Memories Flow in Our Veins capture women’s–that is to say humans’ – experiences in their complexity, power, and beauty. The anthology illustrates why CALYX Press has been a leader in literary publishing for over thirty years.” — Karelia Stetz-Waters, Author of Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before

“By what sorcery or alchemy did CALYX distill 40 years of pioneering feminist literature into this slim, absorbing volume? It’s like an enchanting magic trick: here is the diversity of writers, voices, viewpoints, styles, and themes CALYX Journal has long been known for, including work by Ursula K. LeGuin, Alicia Ostriker, Jean Hegland, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Barbara Kingsolver, and Chistra Banerjee Divakaruni. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of feminist thought.” — Amanda Fortini, “The Feminist Reawakening,” Best American Political Writing 2008.

“If the best anthologies are a patchwork of pieces that each say something unique but are threaded together with careful cohesion, this collection from CALYX succeeds enormously. Poems, essays, and works of short fiction collected throughout 40 years of this feminist press feature distinct voices – some who’ve gone on to illustrious careers, others whose work makes readers want to search out their back catalogs – telling stories as varied as their tellers. This anthology strikes a strong balance between personal and political with early works from Barbara Kingsolver and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, tales about the body, and stories of the diaspora. No book could be a comprehensive universal representation of women’s voices, but this one is certainly a richly woven and deeply satisfying tapestry of women’s work.” — BUST Magazine.

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