List and Story - Softcover

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<p>Hilda Raz has long been a significant voice for American poetry.&#160; She writes of widows dancing and of squirrels fat in late September, of the power of a woman&#8217;s voice, solitary, &#8220;blessed to be the womb put to use or not.&#8221;&#160; Raz brings to her poetry and all the things it may encompass an authority wrought of compassion, of awareness and hard-won wisdom.&#160; She writes, &#8220;I bent over the mess, began to gather it up&#8221; and this is an apt description for how a life might be crafted into poetry.&#160; She knows where poetry comes from, as Yeats did in his &#8220;foul rag and bone shop,&#8221; that &#8220;I&#8217;m not afraid anymore. / How heavy you were on my body. / How burnt I was from exposure.&#8221; &#160;&#160;The reader will remember the triumphs and heartbreaks, where &#8220;I lean on rituals of the house. / Is it possible to live forever in silence?&#8221;&#160; and where a mother, dreaming,</p><p>. . . sits in the rocking chair.&#160; From the shut closet, a cry.</p><p>In the closet, wrapped in a snowsuit, under the zipper, one of the twins</p><p>she gave birth to, this child in her arms.&#160; One twin died, she remembers,</p><p>but this one is alive and mewing, a swollen belly, a perfect little head, a face.</p><p>She&#8217;d forgotten him.</p><p>No. I can fix everything.&#160;</p>

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