The Last Hour of Sleep

Jaffa, Naomi

ISBN 10: 0907123740 ISBN 13: 9780907123743

Publisher: Five Leaves Publications, 2003

Synopsis

The invigorating poems in The Last Hour of Sleep introduce a daughter, sister and woman awakening to her past and her present passions. With honesty and panache they celebrate the complexities of her sometimes difficult relationships with places, horses and people.

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About the Author

Naomi Jaffa grew up in London and Scarborough. With family roots in Russia and Germany, her Jewish parents were both professional musicians. Since 1991 Naomi has lived in East Anglia, working initially as Suffolk's Literature Development Worker. She has been director of the annual international Aldeburgh Poetry Festival for many years. This is her first collection.

From the Inside Flap

Naomi Jaffa's poems intimate, sensuous, sensual have the vivid texture of real life. Her bold use of the domestic, the ordinary, illuminates often disturbing or ambivalent emotion. She writes brilliantly about adolescence, a certain daddy's girl rebelliousness. All the family poems are very strong, particularly the father poems which evoke an irascible, adored, very Jewish, very powerful, cigar-smelling, gambling, horse-owning, sports-loving masculine presence who also is the source of culture, music and sought-after approval. Here are nakedly and exuberantly female poems which conjure sexuality, memory, longing, grief and pack many a shock of recognition. LIZ LOCHHEAD

Edition details

• Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907123740
• ISBN 13: 9780907123743
• Binding: Pamphlet
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 36