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SIBLINGS: Our First Macrocosm
A Wising Up Anthology

Heather Tosteson, Charles D. Brockett
Kathleen L. Housley, Kerry Langan, Michele Markarian
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Our families, especially our siblings, provide our first macrocosm. How much of that experience do we carry out into the world as part of our deepest, inchoate expectations of the world or of ourselves? Is birth order destiny? How are we shaped by the constellation we're born into, whether dyad or nebula? What is the appropriate sentiment to have towards those with whom we may share only a preponderance of genes and, before we have any choices in the matter, propinquity? Towards those who knew us before we had a sense of self? Towards those who helped us define what we are not as much as what we are? What happens to us as adults when we return to these first numinous macrocosms trying to understand how they still shape our ways of being?

Fifty-three talented contemporary writers share poetry, memoir, and story that help us explore these questions and invite us to deeper understanding, unexpected insights, release of old grievances and grief, and celebration of the mystery of the present moment which is so core to our early relations, that graced sense of community that often precedes language, insight, all the mechanisms of adult intimacy.

 348 pp.        ISBN: 978-0-9826933-5-3


CONTRIBUTORS

Laura Apol ♦ Patricia Barone ♦ Carol Barrett ♦ Sarah W. Bartlett
Rachel Squires Bloom ♦ Deborah Burch-Lavis ♦ Brian Burns
Katie Glauber Bush ♦ Christa Champion ♦ Lori DeSanti
Elizabeth Brule' Farrell ♦ Maureen Tolman Flannery
Diane D. Gillette ♦ Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb ♦ Grey Held
Charlotte Jones ♦ Kavanaugh ♦  J.S. Kierland
Steve Koppman ♦ Susan Lanier ♦ Ruth Latta ♦ Sharon Leder
Roseann Lloyd ♦ Katharyn Howd Machan ♦ Paula MacKay
Susan Mahan ♦ Frances Ruhlen McConnel ♦ Beth McKim
Greggory Moore ♦ Tania Moore ♦ Elaine P. Morgan
Sharon Lask Munson ♦ Tim J. Myers ♦ Sarla S. Nichols
Ann Podracky ♦ Julie Preis ♦ Andrea Rosenhaft
Emily Rubin ♦ Ira Schaeffer ♦ Peter Schmitt ♦ Patti See
Alexandrina Sergio ♦ Christine Sikorski ♦ Jill Wilbur Smith
Jane St. Clair ♦ Cindy Stewart-Rinier ♦Elizabeth Stoessl
Alison Stone ♦ Heather MacDonald Storey ♦ Donald R. Vogel
Loretta Diane Walker ♦ Michele Wolf ♦ Gary Young


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Table of Contents

Heather Tosteson: Siblings: Macrocosms & Pluriverse

I. World

Gary Young: Family Matters

Julie Preis: Center of Attention, Best Behavior

Rose Hamilton-Gottlieb: Favorite Son

Cindy Stewart-Rinier: Super 8 Voiceover

II. Bonds & Bounds

Jill Wilbur Smith: Play, Playing, Played

Rachel Squires Bloom: Rutabaga

Christa Champion: The Sun Is the Center of the Universe

Grey Held: At La Petite France

Tania Moore: The Messenger






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III. Brothers, Sisters, Keepers

Alison Stone: Asperger's

Emily Rubin: Crazy

Susan Lanier: Escape

Jane St. Clair: Talking Berkeley Down

IV. Discovery

Sharon Leder: In Sisterhood

Loretta Diane Walker: Breaking the Ice

Heather MacDonald Storey: The Sister Who Wasn't There

Paula MacKay : My Sister's Shoes

V. Loss

Tim J. Myers: To My Sibling, Miscarried 1957

Kavanaugh: Sing

Frances Ruhlen McConnel: My Brother with Underpants on His Head


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            We developed these workshop materials to encourage people who find the Siblings: Our First Macrocosm anthology of particular interest and want to explore the topic of sibling relationships and its personal implications more thoroughly through conversations or writing or both.

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