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Belonging: Three Generations
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639803781
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 21 2023
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Baron Wormser, author of The History Hotel
In this moving memoir of three generations of women, Hoffman is able to conjure individuals and eras with single sensory details: we hear the sigh of the empty little paper cups as the box of chocolates is passed around, we lick the slender cage-like bars of the beaters, we feel the knots of sand squeeze between our fingers to make drip castles-and then the metaphorical significance sinks in. Even as these poems expose the coffin of marriage and its abuses from a dry-eyed stance, their imaginative leaps cry for what might have been different.
-Rebecca Starks, author of Fetch, Muse
In the /Preface to Belonging, Wendy Hoffman's second poetry collection, the poet forecasts what will follow: ...my grandmother sixty years in her coffin/her rugged hands still rolling out strudel dough... But she whom they did not find fetching will untwist/their tangled thoughts. Hoffman does exactly that in her memoir-like poems. Grandmother Bella had to leave Belarus, like all the Jews whose hearts became a tribe of terrorized birds. But the sulfurous wounds of the past reemerge in America. Despite moments of redemption, Hoffman concludes I spent most of my life knowing the truth and being told something else. These poems celebrate her victory over that protracted deception.
-Angela Patten, author of The Oriole & the Ovenbird and other books
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