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The poems in Everything is Rising are vivid in imagery and deep in emotion and nostalgia. Diane takes you to places that you may not want to go, but you are a better person by having been there. -Barbara Marie Minney, author of If There's No Heaven "Memory is the mother of all wisdom" according to Aeschylus. Such sagacity stirs in Everything Is Rising. Using what the poet calls "the fossil of my voice, " she distills the past's influence,...

It is 1869, and Emily Warren Roebling's father-in-law, John A. Roebling, the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, has suddenly died and left the job to his son, Emily's husband, Colonel Washington Roebling. Washington succumbs to a mysterious illness at the beginning of the project, and Emily becomes a liaison and field supervisor for the bridge. She puts aside her own ambitions as an educated woman while devoting herself to her son, John, h...

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Seventeen year-old Christine changes her name to Lavender and leaves her conservative Ohio home tattooed, secretly pregnant and alone. She sets off for New York City to become a punk rock singer. Floundering in a lonely world of drugs, sex and unstable relationships, Lavender, her daughter Anais and Cole, a biracial gay man, cling to each other for acceptance, creating their own unique family. Through years of unsparing love for her challengin...