‘Don’t have any children,’ the author’s mother said, in response to the question: ‘what’s your greatest wisdom?’ posed to her by her own daughter when she was 10. Forty years down the road this book springs out of investigating just what this wisdom is all about. The book thus offers reflections on the state of being childless.

If You Really Love Me, Throw Me Off the Mountain is a memoir of love and adventure. It tells of one very whole woman’s experience of being disabled in a world that cannot imagine her being anything other than broken.

A book of fragments and prose poetry celebrating what mothers try to pass on to their children: a sense of how to be grateful for the experiences in life that can be said to be not only beautiful but also significant in form.

This bi-lingual book tells the story of an encounter with a place, Agger, on the West Coast of Denmark. After more than 20 years of visiting and of developing intimate relationships with the place, the author moved here to embark on a post-academic career, and to explore the sea.

The essays and shorter pieces in this collection treat writers of the Beat Generation, together with certain of their allies and ancestors. Authors whose works are considered include Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Bob Kaufman, as well as Fitz Hugh Ludlow, James S. Lee and Ken Nordine. A theme seen implicitly to be linking these authors is their common yearning for utopian harmony and mystical transcendence, a desire that drives their vocation as pilgrims to elsewhere.

A book of fragments and prose poetry celebrating what mothers try to pass on to their children: a sense of how to be grateful for the experiences in life that can be said to be not only beautiful but also significant in form.