Eleanor

By: Gray Jacobik

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Paperback | 3 January 2020 | Edition Number 1

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128 Pages

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In Eleanor, Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure has much to say. This collection includes poems about Eleanor’s husband Franklin, her children, her mother-in-law, her intellectual mentors, and her most passionate and intimate friendships. Other poems focus on Eleanor’s evolving relationship to servants, issues of class and human rights, as well as her service to the world community. Jacobik’s monologues constitute a sustained imaginative work that embodies Eleanor Roosevelt’s emotional experience, moral conflicts, fears, losses, desires, and aspirations.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a bold and outspoken advocate for issues that are still relevant today: social justice, economic security, freedom from war and violence, and the rights of workers and immigrants. Modern readers will find much to admire, and much that resonates, in the themes of this collection. Publishing one hundred years after the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote, this collection reminds us how far we have come, and how much further we have yet to go.

Industry Reviews

"A new book by Gray Jacobik is always cause for rejoicing. And this one even more so, since, as of this moment, six women are running for US President. These poems in Eleanor Roosevelt's voice draw us into her story; the difficult mother-in-law, the impossible expectations, the marriage that succeeded only through private accommodations. . . . Jacobik helps us see and feel the journey that led Eleanor to become the compassionate leader we remember: 'Oh, I took back from him years ago / my vulnerability, sealed myself like a housewife / seals her preserves with paraffin.' This is how she survived. And thrived. Roosevelt pondered: 'What good is / history . . . if no one ever learns?'--words for our troubled times. And we, contemporary readers of poetry, can learn, and learn again, the powerful lessons of this moving and courageous book. Brava Gray Jacobik, for writing these poems, and for writing them so brilliantly."--Barbara Crooker, author of "The Book of Kells" and "Some Glad Mornings"

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