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Beatriz Badikian Gartler

Old Gloves: A 20th Century Saga, 2005

Novel by Beatriz Badikian Gartler
160 pp., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2",
perfect bound paperback
ISBN: 1-933126-16-7

• Author Profile - click here to expand profile

  • Beatriz Badikian Gartler was born in Buenos Aires
    and has lived in Chicago since the early 1970s.
    She earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois
    at Chicago and has received numerous awards
    and grants in the language arts. She has been a faculty
    member at Chicago's Roosevelt University, teaching
    literature, writing, and women's studies, as well as at UIC,
    DePaul University, the Newberry Library, and elsewhere.
    She was recently named one of 100 Women Who Make
    a Difference by Today's Chicago Woman magazine.
    She is the author of Mapmaker Revisited, a collection of
    poetry, and Akewa is a Woman, a chapbook of poetry
    in its second edition. She is co-editor of Naming the
    Daytime Moon, an anthology of Chicago women writers,
    and she contributed to the mini-anthology Emergency
    Tacos. She also writes about film and popular culture,
    and has placed a travel essay in the New York Times,
    Travel Section. Her poems have been published widely
    in the U. S. and Canada and have appeared in translation
    in Argentina, Mexico, Greece. and India. Her website at
    http://www.bbgartler.com details her many fellowships,
    grants, and awards.

Review Comments:

David M. Kinchen, Huntington News Network Book Critic, September 12, 2005:

The author’s forte is crafting vivid portraits of her characters in sparse but expressive language. . . .
Beatriz Badikian Gartler follows in the steps of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov,
expressive prose stylists for whom English was a second language. . . .
“Old Gloves” displays a remarkable range of emotions for such a short book.
By turns it’s humorous and horrifying, but there’s always hope that better things are on the horizon.

Click here for whole review.

Jeffery Renard Allen, Associate Professor, Queens College,
    author of Harbor and Spirits (poetry) and Rails Under My Back (a novel).

Old Gloves is a beautifully imagined and deeply engaging novel,
which shows felt life in all of its many complexities. Written in
seemingly simple language, the narrative unfolds across several
continents with a interesting and individualized cast of characters.
In telling their stories it also provides a terse exploration of some
of the most defining events of the last century. Indeed, the novel is
a singular achievement which has something heartfelt to say to us all.
 

Contents - Click Table of Contents to see poem titles

• Table of Contents
  • The Beginning 1
    • Turkey 9
      • 1907 11
      • 1922 19
    • Greece 33
      • 1923 35
      • 1928 44
  • Another Beginning 67
    • Argentina 71
      • 1951 73
      • 1953 79
      • 1958 81
      • 1960 85
      • 1962 87
      • 1966 90
      • 1967 93
      • 1968 96
      • 1965 104
      • 1956 108
      • 1957 119
  • One More Time 121
    • United States 125
      • 1971 127
      • 1972 138
      • 1973 143
  • The Next Beginning 149

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