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"This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing writers who found power and growth later in life. At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: "Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over time. We are the pioneers." Coming to Age is a collection of dispatches from the great poet-pioneers who have been fortunate enough to live into their later years. Those later years can be...
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"Visions of a Certain Age chronicles the highs and lows of growing older in today's America. The elderly segment of our society is large but largely misunderstood, widely diverse but narrowly stereotyped. Every day in many ways, seniors are victims of ageism, a prejudice that may be learned or systemic, but one that inevitably leads to dismissal of the elderly as burdens on society. Visions of a Certain Age shows not only the physical, mental, and...
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