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At once brilliant and brave, tender and gut-raw, Lee Schwartz’s Gender Artist explores and documents a mother’s response to her child’s gender transformation. These are poems that shatter and satisfy, convincing us that the deeply-examined life is the only kind worth living. Gender Artist is a must-read.
- Robin Greene, author of The Shelf Life of Fire and Real Birth, Women Share Their Stories
Schwartz uncovers the hard-fought fullness of herself as the mother of someone not he or she, but all of it. Each poem unlocks a new door, leading us down an unexpected passageway of struggle and understanding.
- Susie Kaufman, retired hospice chaplain and author of Twilight Time: Aging in Amazement (Wipf and Stock).
We all fear for our children. What if our beloved daughter began to wear men’s underwear and declared, I feel more like a man than a woman ? Gender Artist by Lee Schwartz traces the intimate journey of mother and child in moving, beautifully-rendered poems.
- Sonia Pilcer is a poet, playwright, and the author of six novels including The Holocaust Kid.
In Lee Schwartz’s storied poems one gender artist is the child trekking out to pitcher’s plate, / leaving her cello on the floor, while the other is the mother, who goes on to find the man in me. This mother shudders and marvels as her daughter becomes a man - her child as Houdini on ‘Who am I?’ day in second grade. Packed with similes and metaphors, these are startling poems that will linger and foment.
- Elaine Sexton, author of Prospect/Refuge
