The Crimson edge.
Subtitle: older women writing
By: edited by Sondra Zeidenstein
Contributors: Zeidenstein, Sondra
Publisher: Chicory Blue Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Goshen, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Older people's writings, American; Older women -- United States -- Literary collections; Older women -- United States -- Biography; American literature -- Women authors
Other titles: Older women writing
Description: "An anthology of fiction, memoir and poetry by women past the age of sixty. Each author's creative writing is followed by an Afterword in which she talks about what is currently on her mind as an artist."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Transition ; Afterword / Barbara Moore Balzer; value: Toss up ; World traveler ; A secretary's song ; Stolen moments ; Insearch of song ; Sing to me ; Eyebrows, wings ; Eulogy for a tie ; Imagining lice ; Journal entry: November 26, 1992 ; Haikus for Tiananmen Square ; Flying ; When you think of a spa ; Reaction ; Waiting for Tomatoes ; Eggyolk melody ; Elegy for Dennis ; Launching ; Afterword / Nellie Wong; value: Somewhere ; 1970: Your hands ; My scream ; The phoone calls ; Exchange ; The lineup ; Perjury ; 1970-1983: Testimony ; 1983: Ravine ; Coroner ; Her husband ; Victim ; Beside her husband ; Her husband, to himself ; His mother ; His sister ; D'lo, de l'eau ; Another Witness ; Detective ; Prisoner ; And after: Nightjar ; Soul on ice ; Paint ; Flashback ; Why she wants to be sand ; Afterword / Joan Swift; value: How deep the feeling go ; You can hold back dinner, but you can't sundown ; Black cat ; Three ain't no big number ; Nen-nen ; Drifting ; God ; Afterword / Pearl Garrett Crayton; value: Mame Loshen, the mother tongue ; From where the feet grow ; Mouth ; The power in my mother's arms ; It's the Bronx again ; Bury me in front of urban turbulence ; Uncle Sandor ; Spring, Passover, anniversary, in that order ; Survivor ; He wears old socks ; Speak without faltering, if you can bear to ; Suspects ; Yes, apple pie ; Driving California ; Meditation on the Hebrew letter zayin ; What counts, what doubts ; Varieties of prayer ; a dead Los Angeles poet ; The light gatherers ; Jospeh and Potiphar's wife ; Hiding ; Distracted by horses ; Angles ; Apple ; Sheltered ; Jews don't eat green jello ; American beauty ; Afterword / Florence Weinberger; value: Bog oak ; Out of the depths ; Afterword / Eileen Tobin; value: she) poems ; Afterword / Carol Lee Sanchez