Raising the Tents [Hardcover]

Frances Payne Adler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1993 | ISBN-10: 093497134X | ISBN-13: 978-0934971348

Jewish poet politicizes the personal, writing about the Holocaust, divorce, and the power of her voice

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Powerlessness, divorce, homelessness, and alcoholism are some of the current societal ills addressed in this exciting first collection by a writer previously known for her nonfiction. Adler (creative writing, San Diego State Univ.) takes readers on a journey to find meaning and wholeness. "Gravity Reversed" examines aging: "Black has slipped from her hair/ to pockets under her eyes." The author probes her Jewish roots to reclaim lost voices--"Voices erupted like small gas leaks"--in the process, as the title poem shows, finding her own. Another fine piece, "Telephone to the Dead," concludes that "The only questions that could be transmitted/ were those between the generations/ that had never before been asked." Notable for its strong feminist, intergenerational, personal, and political messages, this is recommended for all poetry collections.
- Molly Abramowitz, Silver Spring, Md.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Review

Back
Bag Woman
Begot
Blueprint
The Box
Catwalk
Crossing
Divorce And
Don't Ever Tell
Drumskin
Fish Talk
Friendly Fire
Gravity Reversed
Housegift
In The Country Of Women
In The Year Of Asherah
Joshua
Late Poem For David
Long Road Look
Los Desaparecidos
Mother Tongue
Night Rider
The Night Sybil Came
Not Fisher, Nor Fish
The Only Jews In Seredna
Parturition
Raising The Tents
Re-vision
Riding The Eye
Ruth
Sachna
Signals
Simply
Speakbody
Switchback
Sybil
That Act Of Violence
This Reality Is Infectious
The Trouble With You
Underground
What I Tell My Son
What Is It About Hair
Where
Woman, Diaspora
The Women Ago
Wood Floor Rising
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Raising The Tents tracks a woman's retrieval of her voice. In these poems we join a woman on her journey to find meaning and wholeness. Frances Payne Adler's personal mythology evolves from a belief in the possibility for change and a Jewish heritage emphasizing ancestry. She explores the silencing of women and reveals the empowering effects of finding and claiming our voices. In remembering pogroms and the Holocaust, and her childhood in an alcoholic home, she builds connections between the personal and political, bearing witness "against a world malnourished by its insistence on dominance as a way of life". -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: CALYX Books (September 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093497134X
• ISBN-13: 978-0934971348
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is enlightening., August 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Raising the Tents (Paperback)

I had the pleasure to have Fran as an creative writing instructor at the University of Wisconsin a few years ago. She was the catalyst for me to find my voice and begin writing poetry. I bought this book a number of years ago, and I have loaned it to many friends. One poem in particular elicits long and sometimes heated disscusions among men and women. The poem is Raising the Tents. In it is the hope that one day men and women will better understand each other by at least trying to learn the language that the other speaks. If you are a woman searching for your own voice, you will enjoy this collection of poetry. T.L.Nielson