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Limited Engagement - Shah, Jacquelyn
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As a child, Jacquelyn Shah recognized she could not count on anyone else for her needs, so she developed the attitude to "expect nothing" in order to avoid being disappointed. Then, in college, deep thoughts and literature led her to believe living was useless, so she attempted suicide. Amazed to still be alive, Shah develops a taste for living in a purposeful way. "I wanted to live my years however I chose, and I think I wanted to be, was being, a little, wild. But I was definitely not lost." Limited Engagement is a memoir by Jacquelyn Shah describing her life choices from childhood through…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
As a child, Jacquelyn Shah recognized she could not count on anyone else for her needs, so she developed the attitude to "expect nothing" in order to avoid being disappointed. Then, in college, deep thoughts and literature led her to believe living was useless, so she attempted suicide. Amazed to still be alive, Shah develops a taste for living in a purposeful way. "I wanted to live my years however I chose, and I think I wanted to be, was being, a little, wild. But I was definitely not lost." Limited Engagement is a memoir by Jacquelyn Shah describing her life choices from childhood through adulthood, showing how her feminist consciousness developed, despite growing up in a dysfunctional family, to influence her writing, her living, her perspective on others, and her eventual formation of WAVE, Women Against Violence Everywhere.
Autorenporträt
Jacquelyn Shah, iconoclast, pacifist holds: A.B. English-Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, Rutgers U; M.A. English, Drew U; M.F.A. and Ph.D.-English literature/creative writing-poetry, U of Houston.She has received grants from the University of Houston, Houston Arts Alliance, and the Puffin Foundation. Her publications include a chapbook, small fry; a full-length book, What to Do with Red; and poems in Rhino, Gyroscope Review, The Texas Review, Vine Leaves (Australia), The Lake (UK), Plath Profiles, Rushing Thru the Dark, Autumn 2022, The Best of Choeofpleirn Press, Winter 2022, et al. She was Literal Latté's 2018 Food Verse Contest winner. Her publications include a chapbook, small fry; a full-length book, What to Do with Red; and poems in various journals.