Harriet Rubin's Mother's Wooden Hand (Phoenix Poets)
Book Details
Author(s)Susan Hahn
PublisherUniversity Of Chicago Press
ISBN / ASIN0226313018
ISBN-139780226313016
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank6,642,227
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Redolent of Chicago's ethnic culture, Susan Hahn's intensely personal lyrics emerge from the world of an extended Jewish family and its neighbors. The voices of these immigrants are imbued with the profound effects and memories of the journey "From a patrolled town in the Ukraine/to Baltimore on a boat, then a train to Chicago." Hahn's poetry is about love and the lack of love, about rejection, and about other forces—generational, political, social, and sexual—that overwhelm individuals and cause them to limit themselves both physically and psychologically.
