Accents is proud to announce our first illustrated book, Childhood, written by accomplished poet Emily R. Grosholz with drawings by the Parisian artist Lucy Vines.

Childhood is a heartwarming collection about childbirth and adoption, about children and parents; and a fixed percentage of sales will go to an international nonprofit organization that works to protect and encourage children worldwide by providing food and water, medical attention, shelter from violence, and education. (Click here for more information.)

What others are saying about Childhood and Emily R. Grosholz:

These eloquent, edgy poems write of youth and parenting in powerful ways. They also go well beyond that, in addressing childhood as revelation […]

–Eavon Boland,
Professor of English, Stanford University

 

Emily Grosholz is a singular presence in American letters—a poet-philosopher whose brilliant verse on science, mathematics and ideas has been justly praised.

–Dana Gioia,
Past Director, National Endowment for the Arts

Childhood by Emily Grosholz reminds me of how delightful, invigorating, and at the same time humbling my experience of parenthood was.

–Tadatoshi Akiba,
Past President, Mayors for Peace

Childhood will be available October 15th, 2014 and is currently available for pre-order from the Accents Store.

Emily R. Grosholz grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and has taught philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University for thirty-five years, with sojourns in France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece, Spain and Italy. She and her husband Robert R. Edwards (medievalist, rugby man, and soccer coach) raised four children in State College, Pennsylvania, surrounded by small farms and green hills on one side and the town and university on the other. She is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review, and this is her seventh book of poetry.

Lucy Vines was born in 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was raised in New York City, then came to France during the McCarthy era and has lived in Paris ever since, in a milieu of writers and painters. She is married and has one child. The Morat Foundation in Freiburg, Germany, the École des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes, France, and the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris have held retrospective shows devoted to her work. Her works are untitled.