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Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage
Contributor(s): Schulman, Grace (Author)

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 ISBN: 1885983522     ISBN-13: 9781885983527
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.65 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Family
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Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2018
 
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Publisher Description:

A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Selection

"Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel there is so much out there, and it's unbearable to miss any of it."--Wallace Shawn


Grace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY's Baruch College, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss.

How did Schulman maintain the independence, solitude, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? "In my experience, the phrase 'happy marriage' is a term of opposites, like 'friendly fire' or 'famous poet.' My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . " Strange Paradise looks at this, Schulman's remarkable career, her friendships with great writers, her work as an historic impresario at the Y, her religious and philosophical leanings, and her grand love affair with New York--all in her magical prose.
 
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