Identity

"In Beatriz Badikian's Mapmaker we are witness to the cartographer's presence as much as we are to the maps themselves - maps made of words, images, lines of exile, travel, love and longing, loss and celebration. As we move from poem to poem, reading, there is increasingly apparent the growth and consistency of a voice, a poetic speech that is quite recognizable the author's own. Fluent in two languages, Beatriz Badikian is touching in her quiet accomplishment, her lyrical strength." -- Ralph J. Mills, Jr.

From back cover: "...Michelle Noteboom's first collection of poems weaves together obsessions about skin and body, desire and violence, science and sensuality....Noteboom takes us on a poetic exploration of skin as border between self and world, of language as limit between self and meaning."

DePaul University literary journal. Includes short fiction and scripts, poetry, photography and other art.

Selections from literature meant to foster conversation in the Shared Inquiry format about Latino identity.

&quot;A collection of poetry and prose, primarily from the 1970's.&quot;<br />

A young straight woman named Sharla moves to Chicago and is mistaken for a lesbian, Meredith, with whom she identical physically, but the opposite in personality. Initially disgusted that her &quot;doppelganer&quot; is queer, Sharla becomes more and more obsessed with Meredith's life, believing that the confident, popular Meredith stole the soul that was rightfully hers.<br />

Short stories. &ldquo;She mines twenty-five years of therapeutic engagement with womyn and men and extracts powerful stories centered on a wide variety of themes encountered in the complex and troubled lives of womyn searching for indentities, running along the precarious edge between inner reality and socially dictated roles, suffering and coping with the varieties of abuse visited on womyn with frightening frequency.&rdquo;

Artist's statement accompanying an installation at Atomix Coffee Shop.<br />

A collection of varied poems, mostly observations on contemporary culture and freedom. Much on writing and being a poet, as well as personal struggles.

One in a series of chapbooks published of writers at the Guild Complex. A collection of poems on a variety of subjects by the PolyRhythmic collective.