Poetic License
eBook - ePub

Poetic License

A Memoir

  1. 274 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Poetic License

A Memoir

About this book

At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents’ well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence her own voice? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth—even the unbearable truth that her generous and kind father had sexually violated her? In this powerful memoir, aided by her father’s extensive archives at Dartmouth College and interviews with some of her father’s best friends, Cherington candidly and courageously retraces her past to make sense of her father and herself. From the women’s movement of the ’60s and the back-to-the-land movement of the ’70s to Cherington’s consulting work through three decades with powerful executives to her eventual decision to speak publicly in the formative months of #MeToo, Poetic License is one woman’s story of speaking truth in a world where, too often, men still call the shots.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2020
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781631527128
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Chapter 1: No Regrets
  8. Chapter 2: Poetic Space
  9. Chapter 3: Cartwheels and Smoke Rings
  10. Chapter 4: One Morning in Maine
  11. Chapter 5: Fairy Napkins
  12. Chapter 6: Summer Thespians
  13. Chapter 7: 10 Hilliard Place
  14. Chapter 8: As Certainly as Autumn
  15. Chapter 9: Electric Storms
  16. Chapter 10: Puppy Love and Swiss Chocolates
  17. Chapter 11: Biding My Time
  18. Chapter 12: Poetic License
  19. Chapter 13: Family Lexicon
  20. Chapter 14: Clueless in Seattle
  21. Chapter 15: Hippieville
  22. Chapter 16: The Sunshine State
  23. Chapter 17: Things Fall Apart
  24. Chapter 18: Body, Breath, and Belief
  25. Chapter 19: A Man Named Bill
  26. Chapter 20: Falling for Real
  27. Chapter 21: Intrusion
  28. Chapter 22: Apple Buds
  29. Chapter 23: Cleaning Out the Study
  30. Chapter 24: Ginsberg’s Gift
  31. Chapter 25: No Longer Willing
  32. Chapter 26: My Family of Poets
  33. Epilogue
  34. To My River of Gold
  35. About the Author

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