Harriet Rubin's Mother's Wooden Hand

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.

About the author

Susan Hahn is associate editor of Tri-Quarterly and co-director of TriQuarterly Books. Her poems have appeared in journals such as North American Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. This is Hahn's first book of poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Hahn, Susan Firestone Hahn, Hahn Susan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.1991
• EAN: 9780226313016
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31301-6
• No. of pages: 89
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 28 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 170 g
• Series: Phoenix Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets