Jane Shore
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Shore is a poet I’d never heard of. I don’t know why because she’s accessible and an interesting story teller —my kind of poet! Her poems are mostly autobiographical, talking about her life in New York. Her parents had a dress shop. They were part of a lively Jewish community. The adult Shore has a child of her own.
She writes frankly about her own mother, with whom she had a perhaps typical daughter-mother hot-cold relationship.
In her job, Shore’s mother ate, dreamed and lived clothes. At thirteen, Jane lusted after the size three petites in her mother’s store. They would make her the best-dressed girl in school. But her mom would have none of it, coming home from Little Marcie’s Discount Clothes instead with an armful of clothes that had razored-out labels. Shore concludes:
Shore is a mother herself. In “The Bad Mother” she tells how she played with her daughter Emma, letting her daughter be the Princess, the Mermaid and Cinderella while she was the vain stepmother, the fairy godmother, and the wicked witch.
Shore also writes about one of motherhood’s bitter experiences, losing a pregnancy. She writes of that in “Missing”:
After her mother died Shore grieved. She takes us with her in the poem “My Mother’s Mirror” where she talks about dividing up her mother’s things with her sister. She inherits her mother’s mirror.
For those of us who are noticing how our mother’s physical characteristics are now being bequeathed to us and our daughters, “My Mother’s Foot” brings on a chuckle:
That Said, New and Selected Poems (2012) is a collection that starts with the newest poems and then circles back to include poems from Shore’s previously published books dating as far back as 1977. This collection reminds me a bit of some verse novels. After reading these writings that span so many years, I feel like I know Shore, her mom and dad, her daughter and her Scrabble-playing family.
Stanley Plumly’s cover endorsement sums up this collection well: “Shore’s poem narratives have long been praised for their juxtapositions of wit and quiet wisdom. Yet her poems of these past three and a half decades also speak through a Talmudic knowledge as ancient as the archetype. Her work is deep because its small worlds become so whole, exacting, and exclusive.”
Thank you, Jane Shore, for validating many of my feelings about my own mother and reminding me of how mothering is a circle of nurturing and being nurtured. You have enriched this year’s Mother’s Day for me with your poems of experience and insight!
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