Poetic License
Gretchen Cherington
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Beschreibung
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.
Rezensionen
<b>2021 Eric Hoffer Book Award 1st Runner-Up in Memoir<br>2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List<br>2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Best Cover Design (Non-Fiction)<br>2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Autobiography & Memoir</b> <br> <br>“Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Eberhart was a close friend of many years, a beloved colleague. I loved his genial personality and admired his unique poetic gift. He was a generous man but, as his daughter shows, a difficult and complex person as well. This is a vivid memoir, flaws and all, and Gretchen Eberhart Cherington has crafted a narrative worth reading closely.” <br>—Jay Parini, poet, novelist, critic, and author of <em>The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy’s Last Year</em> <br> <br>“A timely and powerful debut. . . . Cherington writes about her past fluidly and with grace . . .” <br>— <i>Paperback Paris</i> <br> <br>“In writing her memoir, Gretchen Cherington has stepped out of the long shadow cast by her late father, revered poet Richard Eberhart, and into the brilliant light of her personal truth. In riveting and honest prose, she invites us to look beyond her seemingly gilded childhood and adolescence to glimpse the realities that defined her family and the painful secret that shaped her way of living in the world. By sorting through the complex remnants of her father's life and revisiting her own memories, Cherington loosens the binds of the past and releases her own courageous and powerful voice.” <br>—Melanie Brooks, author of <i>Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma</i> <br> <br>“ <em>Poetic License</em> is a great achievement that will move powerfully into the world. This is a riveting portrait, in elegant prose, of a once adoring daughter able to reflect as a mature woman, how she searched for her own truth, and freed herself from her father’s dominating presence.” <br>—Elizabeth Garber, poet and memoirist, author of <em>Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter</em> <br> <br>“Gretchen Cherington has written a courageous and enlightened memoir of the lifelong impact of sexual molestation. Cherington dives deep into the murky legacy of her father'
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Empowering stories for women, Inspirational memoir, Child sexual abuse, Maine and New England authors, Famous poets, Twentieth century poets behind the scenes, Father daughter relationship, Sexual assault, #MeToo movement, Dysfunctional families, Famous father memoir