Thank You for Being

Working from a rich personal archive of letters, journals, and poems Bachman carries us into the questing journey of being a poet and a woman; what she calls, "A slender proposition that supports a glittering weight."  This is a memoir as only a true poet can write, life reassembled and revisited in the light of old knowledge, and new.  From her roots in the Yiddish community of Albany New York, to 1970's feminist houses in Oakland, from her studies in Jerusalem to her work with Adrien