Ebook {Epub PDF} Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz

Amy Berkowitz’s TENDER POINTS is a beautifully written and physically beautiful book. The format speeds you along. There are pages with one paragraph and passages three pages long. The book is accessible, touching, witty, and www.doorway.rus: Amy Berkowitz is the co-organizer of Sick Fest and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco. More at www.doorway.ru Tender Points was published in print by Timeless, Infinite Light. You can purchase it directly from Nightboat Books.  · Amy Berkowitz’s TENDER POINTS is a beautifully written and physically beautiful book. The format speeds you along. There are pages with one paragraph and passages three pages long. The book is accessible, touching, witty, and www.doorway.rus:

Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points (originally published in and re-released in ), a lyric essay about chronic pain, patriarchy, and the trauma of sexual violence. In part, the essay explores Berkowitz's sexual assault at the hands of a doctor and the narrative complexities of describing such an act of violence. Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points. Other writing has appeared in publications including Bitch, McSweeney's, and Wolfman New Life www.doorway.ru's the host of the Amy's Kitchen Organics reading series, the coordinator of the Alley Cat Books writing residency, and the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press. In Tender Points, Amy Berkowitz wields short form prose like a hammer, carefully but forcefully pounding away at layers of personal experience to uncover her resilient core in spite of our culture's hypocrisy about authority, power, and pain. With wit and grace she describes her own experiences of sleep loss, of muscular hurt and trauma, and.

Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points. Other writing has appeared in publications including Bitch, McSweeney’s, and Wolfman New Life Quarterly. www.doorway.ru Tender Points by Amy Berkowit z is a personal account of life with Fibromyalgia (FM), a condition that the author has and uses to explore topics frequently associated with the disease. The book, then, is also an account of terror, sexual violence, enduring, overcoming, adapting, being unbelieved and ignored. Tender Points is her first book. Amy Berkowitz is a poet who mostly writes prose. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco, which serves as the headquarters for her chapbook press, Mondo Bummer Books, as well as the venue for her reading series, Amy’s Kitchen Organics. Amy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points (Timeless, Infinite Light, ) a book-length lyric essay about chronic pain and trauma. Other writing has appeared in publications including Bitch, McSweeney's, and Wolfman New Life Quarterly. She lives in San Francisco, where she’s working on her second book.