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Jessica Friedmann Jessica Friedmann i(A142555 works by)
Born: Established: 1987 ;
Gender: Female
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1 Dhurga Dhamanj (Dhurga Talk) Jessica Friedmann , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;
— Review of Dhurga Dictionary and Learner's Grammar : A South-East Coast, NSW Aboriginal Language 2020 reference ; Us Women, Our Ways, Our World 2017 anthology biography
1 3 y separately published work icon Things That Helped : Essays Jessica Friedmann , Brunswick : Scribe , 2017 10984335 2017 selected work essay

'Through the tide of hormones ebbing and flowing my body, and the little runnels of blood and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep.

'In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son, Owen. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays touch on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as motherhood, creativity, and mental illness.

'Occasionally confronting, but always powerfully moving and beautifully observed, Things That Helped charts Jessica’s return into the world: a slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured and sometimes broke.' (Publication Summary)
1 y separately published work icon Poems 2013 : Volume of the Australian Poetry Members Anthology Jessica Friedmann (editor), Dennis Haskell (editor), Chris Wallace-Crabbe (editor), Melbourne : Australian Poetry , 2013 6858889 2013 anthology poetry
1 My Neighbour, Also a Poet i "On my front porch", Jessica Friedmann , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Paradise Anthology 2009; (p. 16)
1 June i "On her right breast", Jessica Friedmann , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Paradise Anthology 2009; (p. 16)
1 11 y separately published work icon Going Down Swinging Myron Lysenko (editor), Kevin Brophy (editor), Lauren Williams (editor), Grant Caldwell (editor), Lyn Johanna Boughton (editor), Louise Craig (editor), Alicia Sometimes (editor), Geoff Lemon (editor), Jessica Friedmann (editor), Melbourne : Hit and Miss Publications , 1980-1994 Z869018 1980-1994 periodical (40 issues)

Going Down Swinging is an annual literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry and comics and since ca. 2000 it has included spoken word items, all in the one book/CD package.

'Started in 1980 by Australian writers Myron Lysenko and Kevin Brophy, GDS has passed through the hands of various editors including Lauren Williams, Grant Caldwell, Lyn Boughton and Louise Craig, as well as a plethora of readers, typesetters, designers and proofreaders whose assistance has been invaluable in allowing GDS to survive for more than 20 years' (Going Down Swinging website: http://www.goingdownswinging.org.au/index.html ).
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