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Panofsky, Ruth.
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Wiseman, Adele -- Characters -- Hoda -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Narrative poetry, Canadian.
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Panofsky, Ruth.
Wiseman, Adele -- Characters -- Hoda -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Narrative poetry, Canadian.
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Radiant
shards
:
Hoda
's
north
end
poems
/ Ruth Panofsky.
by
Panofsky, Ruth.
Inanna Publications & Education Inc., 2020.
Call #:
819.16 P195r
Subjects
Wiseman, Adele -- Characters --
Hoda
-- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Narrative poetry, Canadian.
Series
Inanna poetry & fiction series.
ISBN:
9781771337571 (pbk)
Description:
128 p. : ill., 19 cm.
Contents:
I: Beginnings -- II: Initiation -- III: The lump -- IV: Afterbirth -- V: The dark time -- VI: Renewal.
Summary:
"This long, narrative poem,
Radiant
Shards
:
Hoda
's
North
End
Poems
, traces the sacrifice and suffering of devoted but destitute parents, Russian immigrants who are acutely affected by the Depression and struggle relentlessly to survive in Winnipeg. More importantly, with its focus on the life experience and inner world of their tenacious daughter -- and as the first poetic project to give voice to a Jewish sex worker, a figure that has been all but erased from literary history --
Radiant
Shards
is a compassionate and humanizing work. The poem invokes Adele Wiseman's 1974 novel Crackpot, described by Jewish Studies scholars Ruth Wisse as a foundational twentieth-century literary text and by Josh Lambert as a radically feminist work. This book imagines the interior life of the novel'
s
protagonist, an obese Jewish sex worker named
Hoda
, who services the boys and men of
North
End
Winnipeg during the first half of the twentieth century. In
Radiant
Shards
,
Hoda
reflects personally and knowingly on the experiences of her complicated life. Against the structural arc of novelistic events that shape her worldview, she plumbs the depths of her suffering and the triumph of her will from a poetically imagined position of maturity and self-awareness. This creative project also incorporates archival/historical photographs housed in the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and the Archives of Manitoba. These images ground the poet'
s
lyric presentation of
Hoda
and deepen the resonant voice of a character that originally was modelled on an actual
North
End
resident."--Publisher.
Genre:
Canadian poetry.
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