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Everything was going right in the delivery room until, suddenly, it wasn't. The baby's brain was damaged; the new mother, unprepared for the life she and her family would now be living.In dense, lyrical prose, Jody Gelb pays tribute to her daughter's short life. SHE MAY BE LYING DOWN BUT SHE MAY BE VERY HAPPY is a marvel of compression and potency. Gelb lays her experience bare in the full range of its emotional complexity, from profound suffering to ecstatic joy. It is a mother-daughter memoir scrubbed of sentiment. SHE MAY BE LYING DOWN BUT SHE MAY BE VERY HAPPY isn't so much a book as the naked truth of being human in this imperfect world.Gelb is an actor and author best known for her roles on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning plays Titanic, The Who's Tommy, and Wicked, in which she also toured nationally, as well as television appearances on Law & Order and Dr. Death. This is her debut book."This astonishing memoir lives in the sacred space where life and death meet. From its first startling sentence to its last, Gelb's extraordinary story grips us and never lets go . . . When I reached the final page, I took a breath and began again. I wanted to experience once more the sunshine of her beloved daughter's smile, the intricacy of Gelb's relationships drawn with such wit, humor, and concision. I wanted to remain in contact with her singular voice, to revel in the wisdom she has rendered from her living, and the giant, generous heart she offers to us in this unforgettable work of art."--Martin Moran author of The Tricky Part and All the Rage"Within the first paragraph of discovering Jody Gelb's writing, I knew I was stepping into a world of language and emotion unlike anything I'd ever encountered. Gelb's words don't just live on the page but seem to float above it, as if suspended from a great height by threads of silk. Maybe that's why this memoir, for all its gravity and dark places, retains so much light. Like Lueza herself, the storytelling is imbued with a joy that penetrates the outer shell of tragedy. You will never read another book like this."--Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion"In her devastating, hilarious, pitch-perfect memoir about motherhood and mortality, Gelb proves that no family history is too tragic for laughter, no loss--even the death of a child--too painful for celebration. Filled with uncommon wisdom and hard-won insights, this book is a beacon for life's toughest moments, a welcome reminder that you're not alone."--Mark Matousek, author of Lessons From an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life"There is a space between private and public where we humans waver. She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy by Jody Gelb explores that liminal space by and through both her body as a mother, lover, performer, and the roles she has inhabited in her life. With raw emotional intensity threaded through with poetic gentleness, these micromovements travel the terrain of how we find home not by running from grief, loss, difficulty, but through them, writing our small prayers to tuck into broken places. A tender triumph."--Lidia Yuknavitch"A poignant and a refreshingly restrained memoir . . . As she thoughtfully and understatedly explores the challenges of parenting a disabled child, Gelb also clearly reveals the profoundly transformative power of love."--Kirkus Reviews"Jody Gelb has written a book so rare and elegant and beautiful that I don't even know how to categorize it: Essay? Poetry? Memoir? I think I might just call it a "monument." What a stunning work of art, of truth, and of love."-- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray LoveLiterary Nonfiction. Family & Relationships.

The poems in Kimberly Kralowec's gorgeous, heart-opening collection are rife with haunting and lyrical lines that illuminate the crisis of climate change.In her visionary debut collection, THE SAPLINGS THINK OF US AS YOUNG, California native Kimberly Kralowec explores the intimacy of living in close relationship with extremes of beauty and distress - in both the human and non-human creatures around us."Kimberly Kralowec's poems haunt in the best of ways, moving through the loved and marked spaces of our lives. The voice is rhapsodic, songlike, but never lulling: at any moment, the torsions of her syntax may pull you into their undertow. Listening to someone who can ëunderstand the bleached / language of thirst, ' we are witness to a distinct, oracular vision. Kralowec sees through the mysteries of the everyday into a transcendent world of strangeness: 'I feel again what several people told me did not exist.' We as readers--marvelously--are made to feel it, too."--Jay Deshpande, author of Love the Stranger"The Saplings Think of Us as Young knows the world not by mere observation but through a kind of fierce participation. The poems draw us beyond words and into images, that murky place where art is primed for the elements of unknowing and mystery. This searching collection rings out far beyond the margins of the human. A fabulous book."--Michael McGriff, author of Eternal Sentences"Kimberly Kralowec's poems are deeply aware of the vulnerability of human and more-than-human life. In this time in which disasters have become daily--homes we live inside and move between--Kralowec's nuanced and sensitive book gives voice to both the grief and beauty of irrevocable transformation and expresses tenderness toward the imperiled phenomenon of human consciousness itself."--Sarah Rose Nordgren, author of The Creation MuseumPoetry. Women's Studies.

Poems responding to the everyday miracles and paradoxes of life, in language that is honed, spare, full of plainspoken insight. This is award-winning poetry (Robin is winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize) that tacks toward simplicity. Its depths, like those of the experienced world, are implicit. This poetry follows the basic mission of all poetry to express the inexpressible. Robin illuminates the mystery and beauty (and awkwardness) of existence with a breathtaking command of moment, gesture, and the simplest of words.Poetry.

New father wrestles with the masculinity question--shadows a private eye as experiment.SOFT-BOILED follows Stephen J. West as he shadows a private investigator by the name of Frank Streets. What starts out as a last-ditch effort to write West's first book--while juggling responsibilities as a husband and new father--becomes a critical reflection on art-making, storytelling, and masculinity in America. Blending memoir, reportage, criticism, and detective thriller into one capacious yet focused narrative, SOFT-BOILED is a lyrical and aching self-reflexive portrait of an artist that asks the questions so many men are afraid to ask.A unique, wandering study with plenty of thought-provoking, endearing twists--Kirkus SOFT-BOILED is a magical genre remix that challenges received ideas of American Manhood and the Lone Artist, while simultaneously delivering a thrilling and comedic detective noir and moving family drama--Torrey PetersSOFT-BOILED leaves no stone unturned in its investigation of this unified myth of American manhood, and West is a smart, fun, kind-hearted investigator, willing--like Frank Streets, the enigma at the book's center--to let us ride along and see what happens next--Lucas MannLiterary Nonfiction.