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Poems
Houghton Mifflin
April 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
80 pages
ISBN: 0547006039
EAN: 9780547006031
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
In her acclaimed collections Happy Family and Music Minus
One, Jane Shore traced her life from childhood to coming of
age to parenthood. Now, in A Yes-or-No Answer, Shore etches
the persistence of the past in a life that has moved into a
mature new phase as a member of the baby boom generation.
Recalling her Jewish childhood in New Jersey, living in the
apartment above the family's clothing store, Shore lovingly
imagines her parents, now gone, reunited with relatives
over a Scrabble board in the afterlife. The poet's teenage
daughter sorts through the "vintage" clothes of her
mother's own hippie days. Cherished items left behind -- an
address book, a piano, an easy chair, a favorite doll --
continue to haunt the living. The poems in A Yes-or-No Answer dignify memory through
precise detail, with a voice that will resonate for a
generation at a crossroads.
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