The Many Names for Mother emphasizes that there is no single narrative of motherhood, no finite image of her body or its transformation, and no unified name for any of this experience. As a descendant of Holocaust survivors, Dasbach ponders how the weight of her Jewish-refugee immigrant experience comes to influence her raising of a first-generation, bilingual, and multiethnic American child.Ī series of poems titled "Other women don't tell you" becomes a refrain throughout the book, echoing the unspoken or taboo aspects of motherhood, from pregnancy to the postpartum body. This evocative collection hovers around history, trauma, and absence-from ancestral histories of anti-Semitic discrimination in the former Soviet Union to the poet's travels, while pregnant with her son, to death camp sites in Poland. The Many Names for Mother is an exploration of intergenerational motherhood its poems reach toward the future even as they reflect on the past. "A compelling book about origins-of ancestry, memory, and language"-Ellen Bass juliakolchinskydasbach.Winner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Julia is the Editor-in-Chief of Construction Magazine and when not busy chasing her son around the playgrounds of Philadelphia, she writes a blog about motherhood:.
Her newest poems appear in POETRY, Nashville Review, TriQuarterly, and Waxwing, and her work has been selected for Best New Poets, the Williams Carlos Williams University Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and New South’s Poetry Prize. Julia is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry prize, forthcoming from Kent State University Press in the fall of 2019, as well as the chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press, 2014). candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon and is a Ph.D. Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old.
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