Sweating It Out - by Deborah Turner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>If you want a better understanding of what happened in the wake of George Floyd's unnecessary death, take a look at Deborah Turner's unflinching debut collection of poems, Sweating It Out.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>If you want a better understanding of what happened in the wake of George Floyd's unnecessary death, take a look at Deborah Turner's unflinching debut collection of poems, <em>Sweating It Out</em>.<br /> <br /> In <em>Sweating</em>, Turner shows us the work behind discovering and breaking the rules of engagement, whether in community, family, love, or sports. Each poem, at face value, plays in a different arena--basketball, softball, tennis. Yet collectively, they stand as evidence revealing how the strength needed for real life has its roots in play. Hallowed traditions like call and response ("Double Dutch") and the blues ("Coming Down") score throughout <em>Sweating</em>. The mid-way poem, "Time Out," offers a thought-provoking break. But in the end, the triumphant "When I Rise" gives hope to anyone still struggling and a testament to those whose early struggles to cultivate change ("Juneteenth") make it possible to keep playing.<br /> <br /> Early praise for this original and fresh collection of sports poetry describes Turner's work as a model and mentor text, and true to form you can find her own reading and discussion guide and more about her and her works at www.deborahturner.online.<br /> <br /> Poetry readers are alert for ways to make the complex and distressing accessible and understandable. 2020 is awash with questions, uncertainty, and change. Let <em>Sweating It Out </em>help you work through your questions.<br /> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Fittingly, these poems express an often joyful sense of play, and make rich use of multiple meanings, history and allusion. They use sports as a way in to poetry, and as a way in to deep issues of identity and transformation. I can imagine using these poems as models and mentor texts, and as readings in a variety of inquiry units that will grab young men and women because they connect to the most compelling issues associated with growing up."</p><p><strong>--</strong><strong>Jeffrey D. Wilhelm</strong>, Distinguished Professor of English Education at Boise State University, Author of<em> Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men</em></p><p> </p><p>"Deborah Turner's potent and visionary poetry resonates with bold courage, humor, and emotional truth. Conversational and accessible, yet exquisitely crafted and pulsing with rhythm, the poems in this chapbook call out to be read, contemplated, and read again."</p><p><strong>--</strong><strong>Irene Reti</strong><strong>, </strong>Oral Historian, Publisher of HerBooks Feminist Press, and Coeditor of <em>Women Runners: Stories of Transformation</em> (Breakaway Books)</p><p> </p><p>"Deborah Turner's <em>Sweating it Out </em>is a lyrical narrative of embodiment that works literally and metaphorically with the metaphors of sport. Teaching us how fully occupying one's flesh is also the process of coming to voice, these poems provide a moving account of what it means to achieve each."</p><p><strong>--</strong><strong>Leslie Heywood</strong> is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Binghamton University. She is the author of the feminist sport memoir <em>Pretty Good for a Girl </em>(Simon & Schuster) and the poetry book <em>The Proving Grounds</em> (Red Hen Press) among others.</p><br>
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