A heartfelt manual for those seeking to understand their transgender parent." - Kirkus Maybe you just found out your mom, or your dad, is transgender, or maybe you've known for a while. But now what? This guide covers everything you need to know. With chapters on navigating the changes in your family, finding community, going through the transition as a family, and much, much more, you'll see how other people have handled these experiences, and learn how you can too. From definitions to names and pronouns, you'll find all you need to support yourself and your family through the transition and beyond. Including real-life stories from people whose parents have also transitioned, and practical advice throughout, this essential book will be your companion every step of the way.
In Lottery Ticket, Heather Corbally Bryant explores themes of love, family, and death with poetic meditations on relationships and the natural world. The luck hinted at in the title guides the reader through poems that closely examine ephemeral experiences, teasing out the brilliant emotional core of each: sorrow and fierce pride after the death of a parent, wonder during a trip to the ocean where a child spots seals, anger and weary acceptance after a partner’s infidelity and the dissolution of a relationship. The titular poem, “Lottery Ticket” brings the collection full circle, observing an old woman’s ritual of buying and scratching off lottery tickets in a shop: “One by one, she scratches each / Digit with the rounded edges of / A shiny nickel, eyebrows knitted / And knotted…” Bryant writes, and then closes with a meditation on the strangeness, the luck, and the beauty in even the most hopeless acts—“she turns up a loser / Five times over; who was to think / that she would be so lucky?” Heather Corbally Bryant (formerly Heather Bryant Jordan) currently teaches in the English department at the Pennsylvania State University. Previously, she taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard College, and at Wellesley College. Her first poetry chapbook, Cheap Grace, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. In addition, she has published poems in The Christian Science Monitor and the 2007 anthology of poetry, In Other Words. She lives in State College Pennsylvania with her three children.
In the best pastoral tradition, Orchard Days reveals its deceptively simple pastoral landscape-apple orchards, barns, and mill ponds-to be a place for pondering life's greatest complexities. In this world that is "almost Eden," where marriage, childbirth, and filial relationships are typically romanticized, the poet explores domestic violence ("The most dangerous time for a woman is the time when her Abuser realizes she might leave"); the mortality rate of labor and delivery ("the most dangerous thing a woman can do in America is give birth" ); and paternity uncertainty. As with Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill," apple boughs and green grass momentarily mask the truth that time holds us "green and dying." The beauty that Heather Corbally Bryant locates in the landscape, over which a harvest moon "close to tangerine" shines, makes that particular truth easier to bear. -Donna L. Potts, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman WA Heather Corbally Bryant is an incredible wordsmith. The poems in Orchard Days, her tenth collection, are artfully crafted, deeply thoughtful, and keenly observant. Whether showing appreciation for the smaller things in life or delving into larger issues, her poems brim over with crisp imagery. Further, Bryant challenges readers to embrace both the positive and the negative of life with outstretched arms. For example, there is a strong sense of radical self-acceptance in the following lines from the poem Last Summer: "As I slip into the ordinary, I am struck by the fact I will only / Be here a short while-" These lines, as well as many others exemplify how Heather Corbally Bryant needs only a few words to achieve the maximum effect. The poems in Orchard Days and Beyond are stunning and heartfelt. The book is a must-read. -Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram, Host, Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio, www.blogtalkradio.com/ql_p Orchard Days conjures the natural world and, as suddenly as real nature itself, the sense of foreboding overtakes you, and the human reality of her story turns savage and cold, but at times also comical, absurd. The effortless yet measured breath of Bryant's lyric voice belies a fractured universe of intimate violence. You read this collection as you do a Gothic novel of suspense; the speaker leaves myriad small clues to an abusive and cloistered marital life for the reader to find. Does the speaker need to be rescued? No, because she has already escaped, through the redemptive power of her own perception, and the wonder of motherhood, recollected in a globetrotting travelogue rendered in the watercolor of Bryant's lines. But a menacing, distorted shadow looms over this pastel canvas, this Gothic novel in verse, even if the monster has already been vanquished. The twilight portrait of his darkened will oppressing hers-and here the biblical Eve is often invoked-blurs the glimmer of redemption promised by the "humbling" beauty of children and prelapsarian Eden. Through the blur of tears, a gifted poet has found her voice. Bryant's voice is at times Plath-like, other times reminiscent of Mary Oliver, Marie Ponsot, even modernist masters Eliot, Frost and Williams. For, the plenitude of modern American poetry fills the sails of her verse, as the seashell echoes the sound of the sea, her speaker reclaims herself by listening to the quiet rhythms of her experience, cloistered and cosmopolitan as it is. Bryant's Orchard Days is a crepuscular canvas of pastoral trauma, humble motherhood, self-recovery, and ultimately self-liberation. -Octavio R. González, author of The Book of Ours (2009) and Misfit Modernism (2020), Associate Professor, English & Creative Writing, Wellesley College
Leaving Santorini" charts the healing powers of observation and travel-the poems reveal how traveling to the other sides of the world-Ireland and Greece-can offer revelation, healing, and renewal through the simplicity of everyday observation.
HEATHER CORBALLY BRYANT knew she had to follow in the steps of her grandmother, trail-blazing journalist Irene Kuhn. Heather's reimagination of her grandmother's life in glamorous and exotic Shanghai of the 1920s is fascinating in its detail which closely follows the events of Irene's career. Irene Corbally Kuhn was not a woman to be subdued.
Hey, This is me... Heather Marie sharing the mistakes I've made in my life. The ups and the downs the laughter and the frowns. This is my second edition of my memoirs. When you read the first, you too will see how far God has brought me. I'm not where I want to be, but I'm on my way, and having a personal relationship with God always saves the day! Everyone needs to get to know God for themselves, and not for anyone else. We came in this world by ourselves and we're leaving the same way. Why not get closer to the One who created you today. With God by your side, there's nothing you can't do. Put God first, and He'll show you!. I'm no prophet, evangelist, or preacher but if you want to give me a title I'll be a teacher. And my class is, Building your relationship with God 101. If reading my struggles brings anyone closer to our Creator, I will do cartwheels and jump for joy sooner than later. I can't thank you enough for taking the time out of your busy day to read what I have to say. #blessingscomingyourway
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