{"product_id":"trans-9781496228161","title":"Trans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrans grew out of Hilda Raz's experience with her son's journey to a transgender identity. The collection of poems moves between past and present, allowing Raz to reflect on her own childhood and on her experience with breast cancer to find ways to connect with her son, Aaron.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It was Hilda Raz’s remarkable book \u003ci\u003eTrans\u003c\/i\u003e that shifted ways of reading poetry for me. If you want to read a poetry of honesty and often pain ‘in working through things’—then Raz’s poetry is exemplary in this.”—John Kinsella, author of \u003ci\u003eJam Tree Gully\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirebreaks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Whether she writes of Aaron or Sarah, funerals or fields, Raz’s tone remains sincere and open: ‘Nothing to explain, no shield,’ she writes, ‘of paper thin skin between history and the untender world.’”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What subject could be harder for a mother to document than her daughter’s sex-change operation? Some of the strongest poems in this collection by poet and anthologizer Raz focus on that transformation.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1\u003cbr\u003e Avoidance\u003cbr\u003e What Do You Want?\u003cbr\u003e Drought: Teaching, Benedict, Nebraska\u003cbr\u003e Tough\u003cbr\u003e Names My Mother Knew\u003cbr\u003e Houses\u003cbr\u003e Said to Sarah, Ten\u003cbr\u003e Fast Car on Nebraska I-80: Visiting Teacher\u003cbr\u003e Afternoon, with Cold\u003cbr\u003e Sick\u003cbr\u003e Back\u003cbr\u003e Friday\u003cbr\u003e \"The world is not something to look at; it is something to be in.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2\u003cbr\u003e Secrets\u003cbr\u003e Heart Transplant\u003cbr\u003e Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e Doing the Puzzle \/ Angry Voices\u003cbr\u003e Prelude\u003cbr\u003e Part Coquette, Part Monster\u003cbr\u003e Trans\u003cbr\u003e Trans formation \/ Feathers \/ Train Travel\u003cbr\u003e Stone\u003cbr\u003e Before John and Maria's Wedding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3\u003cbr\u003e Historical Documents\u003cbr\u003e Volunteers\u003cbr\u003e Some Questions about the Storm\u003cbr\u003e Lost Jewelry\u003cbr\u003e Mother-in-Law\u003cbr\u003e Women \u0026amp; Men\u003cbr\u003e Some Questions for the Evening Class\u003cbr\u003e Insomnia III\u003cbr\u003e She\u003cbr\u003e Letter from a Place I've Never Been\u003cbr\u003e Not Now\u003cbr\u003e Summer\u003cbr\u003e Anna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 4\u003cbr\u003e Hello\u003cbr\u003e The Address on the Map\u003cbr\u003e Wonder Woman's Rules of the Road\u003cbr\u003e Aaron at Work \/ Rain\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Returned to Me, Wearing the Poet's Gloves\u003cbr\u003e Company \/ 3 A.M.\u003cbr\u003e First, Thus\u003cbr\u003e The Storehouse\u003cbr\u003e Early Morning, Left-Handed\u003cbr\u003e Visitation: Pink Foam Letter\u003cbr\u003e The Funeral of X, Who Was Y's Mother\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments and Notes","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409237385559,"sku":"9781496228161","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496228161.jpg?v=1730506087","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trans-9781496228161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}