Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue: Tributes to Julia Vinograd

by Deborah L. Fruchey (Editor)

This is an anthology of poems in tribute to Berkeley poet Julia Vinograd was edited by her friend and sister Babarian poet Deborah Fruchey. It's perfect-bound with a glossy, four-color cover and a cover collage by Julia Vinograd's oldest friend Lisa Yount. It contains poems by many of Vinograds friends and colleagues, including Vinograd's own "My Own Epitaph, Which I Better Write Because I Know Too Many Poets," and "To Julia" by the poet's mother, Sherna Shalit.

120 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Deborah Fruchey was born in California over 50 years ago. Her first novel, The Unwilling Heiress, was chosen as a Best Book by the American Bookseller's Association in 1987. She has attended several colleges just for fun, never earning a degree, and has worked at everything from international banking to selling light bulbs over the phone.

In 2005 Deborah married musician Robert Hamaker, and settled in as a full time author. She no longer knows why she bothered with anything else in the first place. She also speaks for the National Alliance of Mental Illness in their In Our Own Voice program, as a result of her own experience with Bipolar Disorder.

Her newest joy is publishing the books of other worthy authors with her micro-press, Last Laugh Productions, at www.lastlaughproductions.org

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure: I have poems in this tribute collection to my mentor Julia Vinograd, edited by Julia's and my friend Deborah Fruchey. The book contains poems by many of my friends, who were also Julia's friends and colleagues. I think it's gorgeous.