{"product_id":"9781595409829","title":"The Short Fall from Grace","description":"WINNER OF THE 2005 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD ~~~ Stewart Florsheim was born in New York City, the son of refugees from Hitler's Germany. He has received several awards for his poetry and has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. He was the editor of Ghosts of the\u003cbr\u003eHolocaust, an anthology of poetry by children of Holocaust survivors (Wayne State University Press, 1989). He wrote the poetry chapbook, The Girl Eating Oysters (2River, 2004). He also writes non-fiction. Stewart's day job is in the technical writing field. He also sits on the board of directors of Compassion and\u003cbr\u003eChoices of Northern California, an organization that helps the terminally ill make end-of-life decisions. Stewart lives in the San\u003cbr\u003eFrancisco Bay Area with his wife, two daughters, and dog.\u003cbr\u003e ~~~~~ The following poems appeared in Round Table, 1986: \"The Girl\u003cbr\u003eEating Oysters,\" \"The Jewish Singles Event,\" \"The Best Bread in Montparnasse\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Jewish Singles Event\" appeared in Ghosts of the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e(Wayne State University Press, 1989) and in Unsettling America:\u003cbr\u003eRace and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Poetry (Viking\u003cbr\u003ePenguin, 1994)\u003cbr\u003e \"The Kitchen Sink\" appeared in Karamu, 1993 (under the title,\u003cbr\u003e\"The Hotel Albert, 1969\") and in Slipstream 19, 1999\u003cbr\u003e \"My Father's Autopsy\" appeared in DoubleTake, 2:4, Fall, 1996\u003cbr\u003e \"Recent Findings, 1996\" appeared in And What Rough Beast:\u003cbr\u003ePoems at the End of the Century (under the title, \"Recent\u003cbr\u003eFindings\") (The Ashland Poetry Press, 1999)\u003cbr\u003e \"The Only Jew in Oswiecim\" appeared in Poetry on the Akeda as\u003cbr\u003eModern Midrash by Rabbi Steven Chester, 1999\u003cbr\u003e \"Exposed\" appeared in Rattle 14, 2000\u003cbr\u003e\"Thirst\" appeared in 88, A Journal of Contemporary American\u003cbr\u003ePoetry, Issue 1, December, 2001 and Compassion and Choices\u003cbr\u003eMagazine, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring, 2005\u003cbr\u003e \"Survival\" appeared in the Seatttle Review Volume XXV, Number\u003cbr\u003e1, 2002\u003cbr\u003e \"Retribution\" appeared in Poetica, 2003\u003cbr\u003e\"Initiation\" and \"The Unseen\" appeared in Full Circle, Volume\u003cbr\u003e1, Issue 6, 2003\u003cbr\u003e \"Mr. S\" and \"Once, After Swimming\" appeared in The 2River\u003cbr\u003eView, Winter 8.2, 2004","brand":"1st World Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041202815216,"sku":"9781595409829","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595409829_p0.jpg?v=1763811365","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595409829","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}