Julie R. Enszer: Sisterhood

Julie R. Enszer?s second collection, Sisterhood, mines the multiple meanings of sisterhood, exploring the burdens and joys of sisters, real and imagined.

These poems ache with loss: of a sister, of friends from AIDS, of elder poets, of innocence, of exuberance and idealism in middle age. But at the same time, these poems affirm life: the desire of humans to life, to hold to one another tightly, to build new ways of being amid fragile remains.

Critics praised Enszer?s first book as having the same "brash confidence" as Dorothy Allison?s The Women Who Hate Me and called Enszer "fierce, politicized and not afraid to point to the flaws even within her communities."