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Twelfth Birthday
Rachel Hadas, “Twelfth Birthday” from Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 1998 by Rachel Hadas. Reprinted with the permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Source: Poetry (February 1997).
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Biography
The daughter of renowned classical scholar Moses Hadas, whose early death she has said gave her a “premature sense of the yoking of love and loss,” Rachel Hadas has published numerous collections of poetry, essays, and translations. Kevin Walzer, an editor at WordTech Communications who published Hadas’s The River of Forgetfulness (2006), comments that “her work—steeped in her knowledge of classical Greek and Latin, formally . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Family & Ancestors, Living, Time & Brevity, Birth & Birthdays, Arts & Sciences, Relationships, Reading & Books, Parenthood
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
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