If I Had My Life to Live over by Sandra Haldeman Martz

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If I Had My Life to Live over I Would Pick More Daisies

Edited By Sandra Haldeman Martz

From Publishers Weekly
Lacking the eccentricity and distinctiveness of its bestselling predecessor, When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (on women and aging), also edited by Martz, this new volume on the theme of the choices women make throughout their lives is simplistic at best. The language of most stories and poems here is uninventive and often cliched; themes are staid. "A child is growing somewhere / in this weary world, / an innocent unwary / of emotions shattered," writes Shirley Vogler Meister in a sing-song, rhyming poem about adoption; and the narrator of Stephany Brown's story, whose boyfriend promptly enlisted in the Army when at 16 she told him she was pregnant, says that "having his baby is still the best thing I ever did." Too many of these pieces have haunting echoes of a campaign for Family Values. Reading these pages, one would assume women no longer make choices other than having children vs. having an abortion, marriage vs. divorce, or which boy to date. A few excellent tidbits--Janice Levy's story about a Mexican woman entering the U.S. illegally and working as a maid or Pat Schneider's poem about a sister choosing to be a nun--are not enough to make this volume worth reading. 70,000 first printing.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description
In the sequel to When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, a collection of poems, stories, and photographs explores the challenges, conflicts, satisfactions, and dilemmas associated with a wide range of women's choices. Simultaneous. 70,000 first printing.