Many Names for Mother
Winner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Ellen Bass, Judge
“A compelling book about origins—of ancestry, memory, and language”—Ellen Bass
The Many Names for Mother is an exploration of intergenerational motherhood; its poems reach toward the future even as they reflect on the past. This evocative collection hovers around history, trauma, and absence—from ancestral histories of anti-Semitic d...
Winner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Ellen Bass, Judge
“A compelling book about origins—of ancestry, memory, and language”—Ellen Bass
The Many Names for Mother is an exploration of intergenerational motherhood; its poems reach toward the future even as they reflect on the past. This evocative collection hovers around history, trauma, and absence—from ancestral histories of anti-Semitic d...
