The Diamond Cutter's Daughter by Elaine Terranova

The Diamond Cutter's Daughter by Elaine Terranova

The Diamond Cutter's Daughter: A Poet's Memoir might be thought of as a nonfiction bildungsroman. Told in short lyric pieces it gives a picture of what it was like to grow up in a working class Orthodox Jewish family in the wake of the Depression, WWII, and then the post-war boom. Her father's business was a luxury trade, useless when there was scarcely enough money to put food on the table. It reflects the first 20-some years of her life and of her household in Philadelphia during the 1940s and 1950s. She was born when the war in Europe had just begun, and the Depression that left her parents and so many others financially desperate was giving way to the new insecurity of wartime and at last, the post-war boom. Elaine was the daughter of an immigrant mother and a first-generation American father, both trying so hard to accommodate to the many changes in circumstance and culture they found happening around them, never quite understanding the America of their children.

Terranova, Elaine: - Elaine Terranova is the author of nine collections of poems, most recently, Perdido, released also as an audio book. An earlier book, Dollhouse, was winner of the Off the Grid Press 2013 Poetry Award. She received the 1990 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for her first book, The Cult of the Right Hand. Her translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis was published in the Penn Greek Drama Series. Her work was part of the Poetry Society's Poetry in Motion project. Among her awards are a Pushcart Prize, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Banister residency at Sweet Briar College, the Judah Magnus Award, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships, and a National Endowment in the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and other magazines and anthologies. For many years she was an instructor in English and Creative Writing in the Philadelphia area at the Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, the University of Delaware, Curtis Institute, and in the Rutgers, Camden MFA Program. She also worked as a manuscript editor at J.B. Lippincott and as a free-lance writer and editor.

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ISBN 13	9781933974415
ISBN 10	1933974419
Title	The Diamond Cutter's Daughter
Author	Elaine Terranova
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ragged Sky Press
Year published	2021-05-07
Number of pages	194
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