When Home Is Not Safe : Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skillman, Judith.

Contributor:

Lucas, Linera.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family violence.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Creative nonfiction.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

When Home Is Not Safe

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"Even if you haven't been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher, academic, or social worker who wants to help those who are suffering. Or maybe you are in an abusive relationship and need to know that you are not alone. The poetry, memoirs, and creative nonfiction pieces collected here tell of real incidents of verbal, emotional, and physical abuse, as well as of those who left destructive and unsalvageable relationships. The beauty and truth of the language, as well as the honesty and courage on the page, set this anthology apart from self-help manuals and academic treatises on domestic violence. This collection offers a path forward to healing, health, and fulfillment, using the power of art to give voice where voice has been stifled, forgotten, overlooked, or denied"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. Home

Weather ; Drafting a Flight Plan / Heidi Seaborn

Hit Me / Jennifer Jenkins

The Ballet / Susan April

Anger Is an Arrow ; Stick Figure Family ; The Secret Goldfish / Howie Good

What's True of the Garden Pea / Emma Brousseau

Fissure / Wren Tuatha

Balcony, 3 a.m. / Chelsea Clammer

Her Father's Daughter / Nina Fosati

holy/days / RK Taylor

You Smiled ; Michael / Lynn Magill

Words 'Too Dark' for the Father's Day Edition / Cynthia Steele

Packs ; Drowned ; The Best of a Bad Year / Kurt Olsson

Ever Closer / J. Flynn Doncaster

II.Trauma

Abroad / Lindsay Erdman

Kintsugi / LeeAnn Olivier

Girl in Rape Kit / Aimee Parkison

A Slice of Summer / Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi

Wine Song ; How to Survive Abuse ; A Steady Whip / Mary Ellen Talley

Voices from the Streets / Ogu Chukwuebuka Kizito

Mandamientos: Lover to Beloved ; I Forgive / Carolyne Wright

Kitchen Table / Paul Rousseau

It wasn't the first time he hit me / Jonaki

Reading the Lines / Darlene Goetzman

From Where I Live Now / Anne Spollen

Why Are They Fighting? / Izzy Wilson

When His Words Became a Drug / Christina Hoag

The Fixer / Toni Felella

Beginnings / Sally Quon

His face right in my face; The Weight of Words in Our Hands Like Water ; This is what happened / Gayelene Carbis

A Game of Cat and Mouse / Kelsey Brown

Excerpt

The Queen in the Mirror / Polly Buckingham

III. PTSD

Pine / Tina Barry

Counting Raindrops / Roxanne James

Pearls Before Swine / Lillo Way

Stone Lies / Sally Showalter

Fire Line / H.M. Clark

i keep secrets stashed in a lock box ; Abandoned Doll ; cold sheets ; secrets stashed in tiny orange pill bottles / Danielle Hark

Memoir Excerpts ; Memoir Excerpts II / Lexy Courneya

The Out of Body Girl / Joyce Hayden

Eiffel Tower ; On a Hot Summer Night for Revenge ; The Truth of Lies, The Lies of Truth ; Sharp / Marjorie Maddox

IV. In Retrospect

The Woman Who Held Her Tongue / Susan Landgraf

House of Cards ; A Picnic / Carol Smallwood

Two-Year Slide in Brooklyn Heights / Rosanne Ehrlich

Saddle Up ; Signal / Linera Lucas

Weaving Rope / Lindsey Heatherly

My First Online Love / Robert Kingett

Tug of War / Alice Ting Liu

Trellis ; Years Later / Judith Skillman

Lost in Transmission / Jeff Burd

Last Supper / Mary Zelinka

Red Flag / Sailor Holladay

Heretic / Alison Stone

Pushed Out of the Chevy, She Adjusts Her Miniskirt / Tina Kelley

Twenty Years of Rain / Meggie Royer.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781476644127

1476644128

OCLC:

1266908452