Trans (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819565040 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 108 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This elegant and moving collection grew out of Hilda Raz's experience with her son's journey to a transgender identity. The journey takes us from intimacy to strangeness and back again, from denial to humor to grief and rage, but always laced with love and acceptance. The collection moves between past and present, allowing Raz to reflect on her own childhood, and on her experience with breast cancer to find ways to connect with Aaron. The poems themselves are accessible and finely wrought. Born Sarah, now Aaron, Raz's child has had a profound impact on her understanding of what it means to be a family, to be whole, and to know oneself. The physical and sensuous language of Raz's poems, and their humanity, keep them intimately bound to the world and to the senses.. The book documents some major transformations of body, self, society and spirit that art requires and life allows. They are equally testaments to Raz's insistence on making an order out of chaos, of finding ways to create and understand and event
Raz (Divine Honors) has long taught English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where she edits the journal Prairie Schooner; some vivid verse describes the Nebraska landscape and its hardscrabble citizens. Her longtime presence at Prairie Schooner, for which she has edited "Best of" anthologies, and her editorship of Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer (2001), have given her a solid reputation. From Publishers Weekly Raz's varied and serious new collection plays a range of styles while sticking closely t
"nothing spectacular" according to adead_poet@hotmail.com. This book claims to have an interesting premise, and I quote from the back, "This elegant and moving collection grew out of Hilda Raz's experience with her son's journey to a transgender identity." And while she does touch on it in several poems, she leaves so much of this unmined. I didn't find any of the poems in the book to be particularly outstanding, and as a whole the collection was rather weak, though it did have some highlights. It starts with a great poem by Rilke. Tough to live up to, and she does not. You. Beautifully crafted! A Customer This beautifully crafted series of poems explores the meanings of 'trans', from the author's experiences with breast cancer to her adult child's female-to-male transition. Loss, movement, and processes of forging new understanding are important themes. The volume is organized into sections, each of which begins with a dictionary definition of the prefix 'trans-'. Raz is one of theUnited States' most important contemporary poets and editors of poetry, so it is no surprise that she handles these issues with such dexte. Palimpsest said Powerful, amazing, crafted, real. This is the real stuff here. Amazing content, rendered in powerful, crafted, beautiful language. From structure to line to word, this is a stunning, remarkable collection. My hat is off.