Description:
Girlfriends is a celebration of women's friendships in poetic prose, including mentors, characters and authors whose writing was inportant to her. One by one, the story emerges of a working-class women who looses her mother as an adolescent and becomes a mother heself, as well as a poet, a novelist and a professor.
Brief description:
Barbara Henning is a poet, novelist, editor and a writer of poetic prose with four novels and eight collections of poetry. Her most recent book, Ferne, a Detroit Story, received a Notable Book Award from the Libraray of Michigan. Born in Detroit, she has lived in New York City since 1984, with interim years in Tucson, Arizona and Mysore, India.