Elana Bell

Mother Country (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First printing: 1000 copies.

Mother Country is Elana Bell's second poetry collection. Her first collection, Eyes, Stones (Louisiana State University Press 2012), won the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Mother Country takes a nuanced look at motherhood, exploring both the joys and the struggles of being a caregiver to an ailing mother, a woman struggling to conceive, and a new mother finding that parenthood is not what she'd expected it to be.

Elana Bell is a third-generation Holocaust survivor whose relationship with her mother connected her to her grandparents who survived the Holocaust. As with her previous book, Mother Country captures the experience of third-generation survivors, specifically by examining the ambiguous loss that comes when the younger generation's connections to Judaism, ritual, and family history are threatened by a parent's chronic degenerative disease.

Elana Bell's poems also explore mental illness, caring for a family member with Parkinson's disease, and postpartum depression.

Strong appeal for booksellers with sections focused on feminist poetry, gender studies, and parenthood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781950774203
• Artikelnr.: 59974866

Autorenporträt

Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and sacred creative. Her debut poetry collection, Eyes, Stones (Louisiana State University Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, AGNI, Barrow Street, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the AROHO Foundation, and the Drisha Institute. She was a finalist for the inaugural Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism from Split This Rock, an award that recognizes and honors a poet who is doing innovative and transformative work at the intersection of poetry and social change.

Elana leads creative writing workshops for women, seniors, educators and youths in Israel and Palestine, and throughout the five boroughs of New York City. She has taught her acclaimed Writing Toward Peace curriculum internationally with Seeds of Peace, the Tent of Nations, and Encounter, offering transformative creative writing workshops to support dialogue and peacebuilding for educators and community members from regions in conflict. Elana currently teaches poetry to actors at The Juilliard School, and sings with the Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women activists and musicians committed to bringing joy and song to the resistance movement. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn.