At age forty, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect the well-crafted myth of her famous family? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth? In her memoir, Poetic License, Cherington candidly retraces her past to make sense of her father and herself. She examines what she calls both the gifts and the harms of her growing up surrounded by the literati of her era and with a father who violated the boundaries of good fatherhood. From the Women’s Movement in the ‘60s to the #MeToo era, she tells the story of speaking truth in a world where, too often, men still call the shots.
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