Building a Woman - by Deborah Meltvedt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This collection of poems is a trajectory of one life-from girlhood to womanhood-with all the complications of family, the joy of friends, grief and loss, and ultimately finding lasting love. Meltvedt poetically weaves her experiences growing up as a doctor's daughter in California in the 1960s and 70s with the cultural expectations of women (and their reproductive lives) in the past and still today. <em>Building a Woman</em> also gives tribute to how we often find worth within prescribed family lives, but maybe more so through long-lasting female friendships. </p><p><br></p><p>"Meltvedt's words ring out like bells and call to us like a friend, urging us to come visit; stay a while; enjoy." <strong>-Anara Guard, author of <em>Hand on My Heart</em></strong></p><p> <em> </em></p><p>"...arresting images and precise language that chronicles a woman's journey to self-acceptance and love. <strong>-Jan Haag, author of <em>Companion Spirit</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>"Her writing takes my breath and rearranges me-in all of the best ways." <strong>-Jodi Angel, author of <em>The History of Vegas </em>and <em>You Only Get Letters from Jail</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Praise for Building a Woman: </em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Building a Woman</em> is composed of poems that showcase Deborah Meltvedt's unique voice in which she delves into her personal history and offers it like a mirror, exposed and shining, to readers. She draws upon childhood's wishes, adolescence with all its loves and losses, and womanhood's strengths and vulnerabilities. Her words ring out like bells and call to us like a friend, urging us to come visit; stay a while; enjoy.</p><p><strong>-Anara Guard, author of <em>Hand on My Heart</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Building a Woman</em> presents a series of candid poems that tell Deborah Meltvedt's story of girl-dom, of growing up one of four daughters in California's central valley, struggling to make sense of family discord, budding sexuality and feminism. She accomplishes this with arresting images and precise language that chronicles a woman's journey to self-acceptance and love, she writes, that "becomes visible on the backs of/ all of us growing up and almost away." The poems not only illustrate Meltvedt's life experiences but also offer unflinching glimpses into the universal challenges and joys of what it is to be female moving from one millennium to another.</p><p><strong>-Jan Haag, author of <em>Companion Spirit</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Deborah Meltvedt weaves words into magic carpets that transport the reader through imagery, memory, and experience-pulling threads from pain, grief, shame, triumph and joy. Her writing takes my breath and rearranges me-in all of the best ways. </p><p><strong>-Jodi Angel, author of <em>You Only Get Letters from Jail </em>and <em>The History of Vegas</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><br>
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