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This anthology carries readers through the many faces, spaces, and stages of love. From life-long lesbian love to the love between a child and her dog. From a father and son bonding by climbing the tallest mountains together, to an estranged couiple finding their way back to eachother in a life-threatening crisis. From a teen's crush on a foreign seatmate stranger, to grandparents cataloging their still-growing love for one another. From finding love early to finding it late. From love that is no longer reciprocated, to a woman's love for her destroyed homeland. This collection of memoir pieces, short stories, and poetry presents twenty-some writers from across the US, Canada, the UK, and South Africa. Some pieces in The Love Book are amusing, others heartbreaking, still others sublime evocations of moments in readers' own lives. Contributors, most of whom have multiple publications, include: Mary Allen Shannan Ballam Julia Bindler Marion Joseph Bollig Barbara Bourne Leslie Cagan Brian Daldorph Gretchen Cassel Eick Doug Emory James Fly Cammie Funston Tom Gannon Hamilton Scott Hurd Kelly Johnston Donna Langevin Bitman Roy Tara Ryan Sheila Sharpe Amy Stonestrom Sally Timmel Adalyn Waeltermann Barbara Waterman-Peters Kathy Whitham

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Many things in life give us pleasure and joy, but what lasts the longest and is most redemptive is love. The poems, short stories, and memoir pieces in this volume are the result of a contest. Blue Cedar Press invited entries about the many forms of love. Here are the independent judges' choices of the pieces worthy of publication. First, second, and third place winners as well as honorable mentions are noted in the biographies following the entries. Blue Cedar Press Board

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Coordinator of the contest that produced these selected writings on love, Eick is a prize-winning author of 8 books including novels and academic histories. She is co-editor with Laura Tillem of prose books published by Blue Ceedar Press.

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