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Ben Berman's Writing While Parenting explores what it means to pursue a creative passion alongside raising a family, how having children can make a parent both more vulnerable and more adventurous as an artist. Given how hectic parenting is, is it possible to balance a career and family, let alone find two minutes to pee without someone tugging your leg and asking to watch you "make bubbles"? How does one possibly find the time or energy to be...

Ben Berman's Writing While Parenting explores what it means to pursue a creative passion alongside raising a family, how having children can make a parent both more vulnerable and more adventurous as an artist. Given how hectic parenting is, is it possible to balance a career and family, let alone find two minutes to pee without someone tugging your leg and asking to watch you "make bubbles"? How does one possibly find the time or energy to be...

The interrelated short prose pieces in Ben Berman's Then Again explore a life outside of chronological order, bounce back and forth between foreign adventures and domestic routines. One moment we're in a Mommy and Me yoga class, the next we're gutting a goat in rural Zimbabwe. As much a meditation on language as a coming to terms with middle age, these stories navigate the distance between words and worlds. And yet whether getting chased by wi...

Strange Borderlands, Ben Berman's first full-length collection, counterpoises insights with uncertainties while chronicling the poet's immersion in a new culture. In compelling metrical, free verse and prose poems, Berman provides a vivid narrative of exotic adventures, especially his Peace Corps service in Zimbabwe-the people, the land, and his "struggling with the blurred lines of where things end" on his return home. This distinctive collec...

Diane Blaine hat das Aussehen eines Hollywood Stars - leider das Gesicht einer anderen, der berühmten Jamie Stephens! Diane findet keine Rollen - ihr Ruf in Hollywood ist und bleibt "du siehst aus wie...", was sie zunehmend frustriert. Da kommt ihr Freund Jack auf eine irre Idee: Ein stadtbekannter Mafioso, dem er eine Menge Geld schuldet, möchte unbedingt ein Date mit Jamie Stephens und so überredet er Freundin Diane sich als Jamie mit dem du...

In Ben Berman's second full-length collection, Figuring in the Figure, poems laden with aphorisms, puns, and witticisms meditate on shapes, angles, thinking about thinking, marriage, and the joys and trials of bringing a daughter into the world, among others. Sometimes with a Frostian spirit, sometimes with a touch of Zen, the known is questioned and wisdom gleaned from daily experience. This is a book that challenges us to reimagine the famil...