![]() ![]() She explores questions of race and otherness with acute awareness.” And Ilya Kaminsky called it “a stunning book,” saying that it takes on the subject of motherhood “without false sentimentalism. I am struck by both its timeliness and timelessness. An insistence on history is at the core of her work. Of the collection, poet Ellen Bass wrote, “Julia’s gift is to bring the past into relevance we feel its immediacy, almost urgency. ![]() ![]() She read and discuss poetry from her prize-winning collection The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press, 2019) which examines how her Jewish-refugee experience and descent from Holocaust survivors from Ukraine has influenced raising a bilingual, multi-ethnic, first-generation American child. What makes poetry such a fitting vessel for bringing past trauma into conversation with the present? Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach suggests the mode she has termed lyric witness, which creates a liminal space between documentary and imaginative representation, between what can be remembered and what evades memory, and between an ancestral past and the intergenerational present. ![]()
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