Leslea Newman - New Books

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The Reluctant Daughter Bold Strokes Books, 2009 A story every daughter will recognize, The Reluctant Daughter depicts the struggles of Lydia Pinkowitz to communicate the realities of her life as a lesbian, as a feminist scholar, and as the woman she has become to her mother Doris. After years of hoping to attain her mother’s love and acceptance while struggling to live a true and honest life, Lydia eventually acknowledges her mother will never really see her.
When Doris develops a life-threatening illness, Lydia is forced to make a life-and-death decision of her own: should she make one final attempt to heal her relationship with her mother or simply let her go?

Bookcover Nobody's Mother
Orchard House Books, 2008
Lesléa Newman's long-awaited new poetry collection, explores themes such as mother/daughter relationships, other family-of-origin relationships, Jewish identity, aging, loss, and self-acceptance. The poems are told in an accessible style with the same vivid use of imagery, language, and humor as the poet's previous work.

All with a feminist twist of course! Some of the poems have been previously published in Lilith Magazine, Cimmaron Review, Salamander, The Sun, and Bark. Others have won such honors as being named finalists in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (2007) and the Sow's Ears Poetry Review Contest (2007). Lesléa Newman is the current Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.

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	Nobody's Mother Orchard House Books, 2008 Lesléa Newman's long-awaited new poetry collection, explores themes such as mother/daughter relationships, other family-of-origin relationships, Jewish identity, aging, loss, and self-acceptance. The poems are told in an accessible style with the same vivid use of imagery, language, and humor as the poet's previous work.
All with a feminist twist of course! Some of the poems have been previously published in Lilith Magazine, Cimmaron Review, Salamander, The Sun, and Bark. Others have won such honors as being named finalists in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (2007) and the Sow's Ears Poetry Review Contest (2007). Lesléa Newman is the current Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.