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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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How She Came Here

How She Came Here

Elovic, Barbara

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639801111
ISBN13: 9781639801114
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 30 2022
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How She Came Here by Barbara Elovic opens with prophetic lines: Not the alarm clock but/hope gets you out of bed in the morning, and moves through a childhood where Henka the phantom cousin joins the dance/of creatures conjured from memory or guilt, and girls were culled from boys/to guard the Talmud pages. Imelda Marcos declares, I am opulence. Anne Frank is an adult in a park where the sun is so strong/we must shade our eyes and a father is buried in ground too hard to take him in. Cousins and a rabbi straining in their suits/and dress shoes, knocking/with their small shovels/on frozen dirt to cover the coffin. Hope binds these distinctly varied stories. It compels the narrative forward in this spellbinding collection that closes with a literal beacon of hope, the Kentile Floors sign, its neon seen/from the lurching F train, proof of what remains unchanged, appearing when we least expect it.

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