Choice Words bookcover

Choice Words

Writers on Abortion

Annie Finch 

(Author)

Dorothy Parker 

(Contribution by)

Joyce Carol Oates 

(Contribution by)

et al.

Gloria Steinem 

(Contribution by)

Ursula K. Le Guin 

(Contribution by)

Lindy West 

(Contribution by)

Camonghne Felix 

(Contribution by)

Audre Lorde 

(Contribution by)

Lucille Clifton 

(Contribution by)

Parker Dorothy 

(Contribution by)

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Description

With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion.

Product Details

PublisherHaymarket Books
Publish DateAugust 23, 2022
Pages420
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781642598964
Dimensions8.9 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches | 1.3 pounds

About the Author

Annie Finch is an award-winning feminist poet, author of Spells: New and Selected Poems and Calendars, shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award. Her ritual drama on abortion, Among the Goddesses, received the Sarasvati Award in Poetry.

Reviews

"This book is a treasure, a gift, and a long-overdue shining of light in the most secret, sometimes painful, and often defiant lives of women. I am grateful that this anthology finally exists." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author, Eat, Pray, Love

"This is a captivating collection, organized and curated as only Annie Finch can do. It is a book I will cherish for years to come." --Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author, Balm

"A powerful collection of poems, fiction, and essays on the reality of abortion. . . Finch (Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, 2015, etc.) has drawn together writers across time (from the 16th century to the present), place, race, ethnicity, gender, age, and culture who offer stark, often wrenching revelations. . . Eloquent contributions to the literature on a deeply contested issue." --Kirkus, starred review

"With reproductive rights under relentless assault, never has a book been more needed. Annie Finch has spanned five centuries and six continents to assemble writers who articulate a commonality of experience in every situation and emotion. Conceived and compiled with scrupulous scholarship, and with an illuminating introduction by Katha Pollitt, Choice Words will become a classic of both feminism and literature." --Robin Morgan, activist, author, host of Women's Media Center Live

"The poems, essays, and stories in Choice Words prove that women's bodies cannot be nationalized." -- Gloria Steinem

"Choice Words is an important contribution to our movement for abortion access. It's time to read what literary voices have been saying about abortion. As we read their voices and stories, we have more nuanced context as we navigate our own lives." -Yamani Hernandez, Executive Director, National Network of Abortion Funds

"Silence, as much as anything, is why abortion's such an easy target in America. Stories save lives. We need women to say, shamelessly, I had an abortion. I'm not sorry. I'm not afraid. This anthology is a valuable contribution to this work." -Molly Crabapple, author, Drawing Blood

"Every kind of abortion you can imagine is represented here: abortions legal and illegal, safe and dangerous and fatal; abortions despite the wishes of others and abortions at the behest-the compulsion-of others; abortion as a claiming of self and abortion as an abnegation of self. There is abortion as tragedy, and also abortion as an occasion for wry comedy." -Katha Pollitt, author, Pro

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