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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