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The Last Hour of Sleep

Jaffa, Naomi

 
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Revue de presse

Jaffa's skill lies in showing us the tension between restrictions and freedom. How can we soar away or enjoy the rules... she celebrates limitless horizons; her language is musical, her images bright. --PN Review

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. Here are nakedly and exuberantly female poems which conjure sexuality, memory, longing, grief and pack many a shock of recognition. --Liz Lochhead

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

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