Haya Pomrenze's "Hook" conveys the complexities of the Jewish Modern Orthodox female experience. The narrator is an insider and an outsider, dependent and contemptuous, a follower and a free spirit. Like the child in "Straddle" hooking her feet into the stirrups of a carousel horse, the heroine labors to stand on solid ground while staking her claim in a world further complicated by the push and pull of the mother-daughter relationship, explored throughout the book and masterfully portrayed in the title poem. You'll struggle not to laugh and cry at the same time while reading this poetry debut.
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I read on, desperate to share her words with anyone in possession of ears. Pomrenze is that kind of poet. -- The Florida Book Review, August, 2007
Pomrenze excels at wrapping outrage within lively and humorous narrative. It is a well-received package, and the outrage is certainly felt. -- The Compulsive Reader, June, 2007
Pomrenze excels at wrapping outrage within lively and humorous narrative. It is a well-received package, and the outrage is certainly felt. -- The Compulsive Reader, June, 2007
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Haya Pomrenze's poems are honest, direct...witty, straight out of the daily life of a Jewish woman who is intelligent and aware of the balancing acts of her life, between Orthodoxy and rebellion, between mother and daughter, husband and wife, how we saw the world when we were younger and how we see it as we grow older. * Marge Piercy
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speaks to all women! laugh and cry!,
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This book is a gem and I can not wait to read more of her writings. It speaks to ALL of us--women who are young, old, mothers ourselve, etc. She truly zooms in and "gets it"--our feelings of being a daughter, being a mother, a daughter -in-law, our commitments, our bodies, our growth and more. It is a book to read and reread and to share with friends and sisters and nieces and daughters annd more. I laughed and I cried and loved it all
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