"This anthology was originally, and rather playfully, conceived as two. Truth, Fair Play & Other Myths We Choose to Live By was a response to an increasingly cynical world view that disavowed our best intentions. The other, Spot Cleaning Our Dirty Laundry, responded to an increasingly righteous reactivity in all of us that refuses to take responsibility for the harm we ourselves can cause. Then we realized they were flip sides of the same coin. We invite readers into a more intimate, not always comfortable, engagement with ...
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"This anthology was originally, and rather playfully, conceived as two. Truth, Fair Play & Other Myths We Choose to Live By was a response to an increasingly cynical world view that disavowed our best intentions. The other, Spot Cleaning Our Dirty Laundry, responded to an increasingly righteous reactivity in all of us that refuses to take responsibility for the harm we ourselves can cause. Then we realized they were flip sides of the same coin. We invite readers into a more intimate, not always comfortable, engagement with those two interlocked dynamics. Spot cleaning wouldn't be necessary if we didn't have beliefs and ideals-or if they didn't need to be continuously reconciled with the exigencies of raw life. This is an evocative and thought-provoking collection from thirty-seven authors of poetry, essay, and short fiction that allows us to explore many dimensions of these tensions-from our participation in systemic harms to the most intimate of ones, from dramatic instances to quiet, almost unnoticeable ones. We have organized them by the dilemmas they explore: race, nationality and culture, class and community, family dynamics, faith"--
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