Out of History's Junk Jar: Poems of a Mixed Inheritance [Paperback]

Judith Chalmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1995

These are poems that reclaim, in the voice of a Jewish woman, stories almost lost in the personal and historical disruption of lives immigration, the Holocaust, child abuse, and the rending and piecing together of love.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This is a sure and powerful first book, the somehow beautiful poems of which are the searchlight Chalmer carries into the dark of her life, its intersections of lost personal and political history....Poetry is too rarely asked to do its full work of wedding profound individual insight with its largest social meaning. Chalmer expects it to, requires it to, and it does. --Linda McCarriston, author of Eva-Mary, winner of TriQuarterly Books Terrence Des Pres Prize and finalist for the National Book Award in 1991

About the Author

Judith Chalmer's poems have been anthologized in Beyond Lament (Northwestern U. Press, 1998), Sixteen Voices (Mariposa Publishing, 1994) and Anthology of New England Writers (New England Writers' Association, 1990). She has received honorable mentions from both the Pushcart Prize and the Wildwood Poetry Prize and was first-prize winner in the New England Writers' Association Annual Poetry Competition. She teaches creative writing and supervises independent studies in the fine arts at New College of Norwich University, on the Vermont College Campus.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Time Being Books (September 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156809017X
• ISBN-13: 978-1568090177
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,798,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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