Writing My Life, Poems by Naomi Feigelson Chase

Naomi Feigelson Chase confronts a new journey in Writing My Life: leaving a beloved home for a new settlement. These poems touch on the work of motion and memory.

Sample Poems by Naomi Feigelson Chase

“These flashlit out-takes illuminate the synoptic process we call memory.”—Bill Knott

Naomi Feigelson Chase won the 2003 Flume Press Poetry Chapbook Award for One Blue Thread. She has published other poetry books, including Gittel, the Would-Be Messiah (Turning Point); Listening for Water (Archival Press); and Waiting for the Messiah in Somerville, Mass.(Garden Street Press); and two other poetry chapbooks, The Judge’s Daughter, and Stacked (illust., Jon Agee). Her nonfiction books include A Child Is Being Beaten: Child Abuse in America (Holt, Rinehart & Winston), and The Underground Revolution, Hippies, Yippies and Others(Funk and Wagnalls). Her fiction has been published in many magazines, and anthologized by Milkweed Editions and New Rivers Press.