Background
Osherow, Jacqueline Sue was born on August 15, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Aaron and Evelyn Hilda (Victor) Osherow.
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This collection integrates a poetry of historical and political reality - especially that of World War II - with a traditional, formal poetry of personal lyricism. Relating and rendering anecdotes told to her by Holocaust survivors, the poet connects personal existence with history.
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In With a Moon in Transit, Jacqueline Osherow has given us her most accomplished poetry to date. Integrating the strengths of her earlier work-humor, honesty, artifice, testimony-into compelling poems of great vigor and charm, she combines the often antithetical impulses of lyric and narrative verse. The result is an aesthetic largely her own, one that permits Osherow to treat emotionally charged events and elaborate ideas with remarkable control. Osherow's observations are by turns gossipy, grand, sober, and hilarious. She sustains a disarming tone and manages to assimilate elements of both high and popular culture without apparent strain. While firmly rooted in the Hebrew Bible, her verse is also informed by authors as various as Dante and Dickinson. Yet for all that these poems are alive to the literary past, they remain sensitive to the rhythms of conversation and the tones of everyday speech. Osherow's poems are composed with great clarity and rigor, but they never cease to sound casually spoken.
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English language educator poet
Osherow, Jacqueline Sue was born on August 15, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Aaron and Evelyn Hilda (Victor) Osherow.
AB Magna cum laude, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1978. Postgraduate, Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature, Princeton University, 1990.
Associate Professor of English, C. Utah, Salt Lake City, since 1989.
(This collection integrates a poetry of historical and pol...)
( In With a Moon in Transit, Jacqueline Osherow has given...)
Member Poetry Society of America (John Masefield Memorial award 1993, Lucille Medwick Memorial award 1995, Cecil Hemley Memorial award 1997).
Married Saul Korewa, June 16, 1965 (divorced 2003). Children: Magda, Dora, Mollie.