Here And Somewhere Else: Stories and Poems

Two married writers express their shared activism in a surprising range of styles and voices. Husband and wife, parents and grandparents, Grace Paley and Robert Nichols are two writers and activists who constantly engage the world.Here and Somewhere Else, including uncollected or unpublished fiction by both Paley and Nichols, encompasses diverse countries and cultures, and counterpoints stories and poems that reveal engaged artists inventing different ways to illuminate political themes and issues.

Table of Contents:
Introduction by Marianne Hirsch; The Long-Distance Runner; Here; Anti-Love Poem; Debts; Three Days and a Question; Is There a Difference Between Men and Women; Travelling; In the Bus; My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age; On Occasion; Walking in the Woods; The Mirror of Narcissus; Address to the Smaller Animals; Songs and Other Songs; Reading the Meter; Father and Son on the Road; The Dream (on my 50th birthday); Peasants.

About the Author :
Grace Paley was a cooperative anarchist and combative pacifist. She taught at Columbia University, Syracuse University, City College and Sarah Lawrence College. In 1989, she was named the first official New York State Writer. Her many publications include Later the Same Day, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, The Little Disturbances of Man, and Leaning Forward. Robert Nichols worked as a landscape architect and was involved in a nonprofit construction project for the teenagers of New York's Lower East Side. He was active in the antiwar movement and in the antinuclear movement. Marianne Hirsch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she also has an appointment in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the author of Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory; Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism; and The Familial Gaze.

Review :
"A wife and husband write politically in very different ways, charting "new territories of the imagination." —Meena Alexander, author of Fault Lines "A work of the highest interest, Nichol's ironic juxtapositions and Paley's heartbreaking elisions smile at each other across eternity." —Marilyn French, author of The Women's Room "Opens up our thinking about race and class and the 'little disturbances' of men and women. A generous helping of stories and poems of two wonderful political writers bundled into one economical package." —Ruth Perry, author of Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture "A wife and husband write politically in very different ways, charting "new territories of the imagination." —Meena Alexander, author of Fault Lines "A work of the highest interest, Nichol's ironic juxtapositions and Paley's heartbreaking elisions smile at each other across eternity." —Marilyn French, author of The Women's Room "Opens up our thinking about race and class and the 'little disturbances' of men and women. A generous helping of stories and poems of two wonderful political writers bundled into one economical package." —Ruth Perry, author of Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture