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DARING TO REPAIR: What Is It, Who Does It & Why?
A Wising Up Anthology

Heather Tosteson
Charles D. Brockett
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What is repair in relationships? It’s not starting anew. It’s not jumping ship. It’s not settling, either.  It takes as many forms as there are relationships. It’s difficult. It matters. It takes both sides to do it—and we do it all the time, in large and small ways. So why don’t we like to talk about it? Why do we tend to think of it as a failure rather than a source of resilience, like the constant re-equilibrations of balance that allow us to walk, dance, break bread and move mountains?

In this intriguing anthology of poetry, memoir, and story, forty-five talented writers ages twenty to eighty explore repair in many forms: between adults and their parents, parents and their children, in romantic relationships, marriage, divorce, bereavement because of the death of a parent, spouse, or grandchild, and in relationship to broader social conditions as well, like poverty, addiction, racism, war, physical differences, disease. With humor, grief, wit, tenderness, honesty, kindness, anger and hope, they invite us to explore—and celebrate—what it takes for all of us to stay connected. This is a book you can find yourself in. This is a book you can share—with a brother, a long lost friend or one you talk with daily, a parent, a child, a colleague, a spouse—and learn something new about them and yourself, growing closer in the process.   340 pp.   ISBN 978-0-9827262-7-3

CONTRIBUTORS

Eve Mills Allen • Patricia Barone • Bari Benjamin • Wendy Brown-Báez
Caitlin Buckley • Rose Burke • Susan Kay Chernilo • Arhm Choi
Marian Mathews Clark • Willy Conley • Terry Cox-Joseph • Bill Denham
Martha Gies • Judith Goedeke • Janet Lunder Hanafin
R.E. Hayes • William Henderson • Paul Hostovsky
Beth Lefebvre • Russ Allison Loar • Michele Markarian • Diane Mierzwik
Caridad Moro • Tim Myers • Wendy Jones Nakanishi
Sophia J. Nolan • Jim Pahz • Rachel Raimondi
Melanie Reitzel • Lori Rottenberg • Mary Kay Rummel
Adrienne Ross Scanlan • Evelyn Sharenov • Isabelle Bruder Smith
Thomas J. Stevenson • Elizabeth Swann • Elaine J. Taber
Don Thackrey • Heather Tosteson • Carol Tufts • Georgann Turner
Marta Tveit • Andy Weatherwax • Mary Wheeler • Weihua Zhang

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Writing to Repair

Adult Children

Caridad Moro: Perspective

Parenthood

Paul Hostovsky: Ladders

Georgann Turner: Talking with Sophie

Romance

Sophia J. Nolan: No Reservations

Marriage

William Henderson: Scar Tissue

Wendy Jones Nakanishi: A Stitch in Time

Bereavement

Wendy Brown-Baez: A Good Day

Expanding into the Human Condition

R.E. Hayes: Gait

Andy Weatherwax: Possession & My Teacher

Evelyn Sharenov: Deliverance

Jim Pahz: Good Intentions


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