Mules of Love by Ellen Bass
Balancing heart-intelligent intimacy and surprising humor, the poems in Ellen Bass's Mules of Love illuminate the essential dynamics of our lives: family, community, sexual love, joy, loss, religion and death. The poems also explore the darker aspects of humanity--personal, cultural, historical and environmental violence--all of which are handled with compassion and grace. Bass's poetic gift is her ability to commiserate with others afflicted by similar hungers and grief. Her poem "Insomnia" concludes: "may something/ comfort you--a mockingbird, a breeze, rain/ on the roof, Chopin's Nocturnes, the thought/ of your child's birth, a kiss,/ or even me--in my chilly kitchen/ with my coat on--thinking of you."
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Ellen Bass is co-author (with Laura Davis) of the best-selling The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (HarperCollins 1988, 1994), which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., Double Take, and Field. In 1980, Ms. Bass was awarded the Elliston Book Award for Poetry from the University of Cincinnati. Last year, she won Nimrod/Hardman's Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, judged by Thomas Lux. She was nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz, where she has taught creative writing for 25 years. She has also taught writing workshops at many conferences nationally and in Mallorca, Spain.
Ellen Bass was born in 1947 in Philadelphia. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), which the San Francisco Chronicle named a Noteworthy Book of 2007. She is also the co-author of the best-selling Courage to Heal. Bass felt a called to return to poetry with the renowned Mules of Love (BOA Editions, 2002) after a ten-year absence to work with survivors of child sexual abuse. She obtained her master's degree from Boston University in 1970, where she studied with Anne Sexton. No More Masks! is her ground-breaking work. She presently teaches in Pacific University's low-residency MFA program and lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she has been teaching writing and poetry workshops since 1974.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781929918225 |
| ISBN 10 | 1929918224 |
| Title | Mules of Love |
| Author | Ellen Bass |
| Series | American Poets Continuum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | BOA Editions, Limited |
| Year published | 2002-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2002 |
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