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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
List and Story

List and Story

Raz, Hilda

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1622883071
ISBN13: 9781622883073
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Published: Mar 12 2020
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Hilda Raz has long been a significant voice for American poetry. She writes of widows dancing and of squirrels fat in late September, of the power of a woman's voice, solitary, blessed to be the womb put to use or not. Raz brings to her poetry and all the things it may encompass an authority wrought of compassion, of awareness and hard-won wisdom. She writes, I bent over the mess, began to gather it up and this is an apt description for how a life might be crafted into poetry. She knows where poetry comes from, as Yeats did in his foul rag and bone shop, that I'm not afraid anymore. / How heavy you were on my body. / How burnt I was from exposure. The reader will remember the triumphs and heartbreaks, where I lean on rituals of the house. / Is it possible to live forever in silence? and where a mother, dreaming,

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