A Termination
by Honor Moore
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Not my lover, not my parents, and they said I couldn't tell a friend. . .In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encounter. That spring, she had an abortion.
A Termination is the story of the young woman who made that decision, show more and of how that act of resistance, then shrouded in fear and silence, has reverberated throughout her life since. Angry, nostalgic, questioning, and romantic, the memoir pursues the associations of memory, moving from the New Haven of Yale Drama School, the Living Theatre and the Black Panthers; to the New York City of theater, jazz, and the Chelsea Hotel; the Berkshires of rock and roll at Tanglewood, and Chicago in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Framing the story is a self-portrait of the author fifty-five years later, a woman with a sexual past, a poet who has made her own way. A lyric, searching memoir, A Termination asks what it means to write with full honesty about one's life—to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.
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Well written. I never realized that there were exceptions for hospital abortions prior to Roe v. Wade.
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Honor Moore is the author of the poetry collections Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir. She wrote the biography The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.
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- 818.5403 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 20th Century 1945-1999 Diaries
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- HQ767.5 .U5 .M66 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home Family size
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