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COLD SHOULDERS & EVIL EYES : STEADYING GAZES & WARM EMBRACES
Inclusion and Exclusion in Our Daily Lives
PART V: FAMILY & HISTORY
PART VI: PARENTING 


The first three poems in the section Family & History deal with exclusion at the most intimate level. The young girl in Antoinette Brim's poem waits with resolute patience for a father who never comes. Alexandrina Sergio explores what it means to have the joy in your own daughter's existence tramped by the prejudice of others - and about what it mans to meet others, unexpectedly but frequently, who, like her, have their feet firmly set in a larger world that can rejoice openly in sexual difference. Marion Cohen writes of the ache of exclusion in marriage. The poems of Andrei Guruianu and Jodi Hottel introduce the powerful role of historical events in our understanding of our parents and aunts and uncles, an introduction to the dynamics of exclusion and inclusion on ever larger stages. The feeling of being moved and defined by forces beyond our understanding is present here, as it was in the first section on childhood, but also includes an adult sense of the need to bear witness, a stance that Carol DeCanio carries through in her poem, "After".



The final section, Parenting, focuses on the powerful responses parents have to exclusion that threatens to disrupt their ability to parent, as in Katrin Talbot's poem, "The Drs. So & So and the Fine Art of Exclusion," or that threatens their unusual child's ability to live a life of social inclusion. Donald Vogel muses on the traits he shares with his autistic son and on how he needs, as a parent, to move beyond identification to a steady gaze that can accept both his son and himself. McCabe Coolidge's memoir about his developmentally disabled daughter invite us, again, to think about what relationships really matter and what constitutes a richly connected life.

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