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PUBLISHED: Mar.26.2009

What He Took

Poems that revisit the death of Mnookin'sr father in a car accident when she was two. The book moves from the accident itself to her efforts to understand the loss and how it has shaped her adult life. A contemplation of loss and grief.

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The Moon Makes Its Own Plea

Poems that explore the idea of self and how that self is strengthened and abraded by relationships. The poems coalesce around the condition of mortality--not a specific death, although these also occur, but the state of being mortal.

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To Get Here

Mnookin explores the transformation of her family under the pressure of a son's drug addiction. Using shifting chronology and different voices, she describes a family's efforts to understand the changing reality of their lives.

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Article: My Son, The Junkie

Poem: My Sister, My Childhood Ally

About Wendy

Wendy Mnookin is a poet living in Newton, Massachusetts. Her most recent book is The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, published by BOA Editions in 2008. Her other books are What He Took, To Get Here and Guenever Speaks. Her poetry has been published in anthologies,...

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