Gender Artist - Schwartz, Lee A
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At once brilliant and brave, tender and gut-raw, Lee Schwartz's Gender Artist explores and documents a mother's response to her child's gender transformation. These are poems that shatter and satisfy, convincing us that the deeply-examined life is the only kind worth living. Gender Artist is a must-read. - Robin Greene, author of The Shelf Life of Fire and Real Birth, Women Share Their Stories Schwartz uncovers the hard-fought fullness of herself as the mother of someone "not he or she, but all of it." Each poem unlocks a new door, leading us down an unexpected passageway of struggle and…mehr

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At once brilliant and brave, tender and gut-raw, Lee Schwartz's Gender Artist explores and documents a mother's response to her child's gender transformation. These are poems that shatter and satisfy, convincing us that the deeply-examined life is the only kind worth living. Gender Artist is a must-read. - Robin Greene, author of The Shelf Life of Fire and Real Birth, Women Share Their Stories Schwartz uncovers the hard-fought fullness of herself as the mother of someone "not he or she, but all of it." Each poem unlocks a new door, leading us down an unexpected passageway of struggle and understanding. - Susie Kaufman, retired hospice chaplain and author of Twilight Time: Aging in Amazement (Wipf and Stock). We all fear for our children. What if our beloved daughter began to wear men's underwear and declared, "I feel more like a man than a woman"? Gender Artist by Lee Schwartz traces the intimate journey of mother and child in moving, beautifully-rendered poems. - Sonia Pilcer is a poet, playwright, and the author of six novels including The Holocaust Kid. In Lee Schwartz's storied poems one gender artist is the child "trekking out to pitcher's plate, / leaving her cello on the floor," while the other is the mother, who goes on to find "the man in me." This mother shudders and marvels as her daughter "becomes a man" - her "child as Houdini on 'Who am I?' day" in second grade. Packed with similes and metaphors, these are startling poems that will linger and foment. - Elaine Sexton, author of Prospect/Refuge
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Born in Brooklyn, Lee Schwartz is a lifelong New Yorker. She graduated with advanced degrees from New York University and never left Greenwich Village, inspired by the surroundings and writers who lived there. She studied with Sharon Olds; Frida Kahlo is another mentor. Her work has been published in the anthologies Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Oxford University Press) and Writing Fire (Green Fire Press) as well as in many journals. Lee Schwartz is two-time winner of the Allen Ginsberg Paterson Literary Prize and has served as Artist-in-Residence at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.