Wendy Mnookin : What He Took / To Get Here SIGNED poetry books
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Wendy Mnookin : What He Took / To Get Here SIGNED poetry books
TWO autographed poetry books: Wendy Mnookin
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What He Took (American Poets Continuum)Paperback– May 1, 2002
When she was only two years old, Wendy Mnookin and her young family were involved in a tragic car accident. She and her mother survived with injuries, but Mnookin's 27-year-old father succumbed to his injuries.
"What He Took" begins with this tragedy, and it is the enduring and haunting theme which carries the entire book. We follow Mnookin through the sweet and sad tenuousness of her earliest memories (Mnookin has memories of the accident which her family tries to tell her can't be true, as she was too young to remember) and on through her childhood into adulthood. Mnookin skillfully and candidly shows how the loss of a father affected every part of her life, from the conflicted emotions she felt with her adoring step-father, to the separateness she felt with other children who had living fathers (including her own half-sister), to the bitter-sweet relief she felt when doing atom bomb drills at school, knowing that if the bomb does drop, she would be guided into heaven by her father.
Mnookin's work has been published in numerous journals, including The Greensboro Review, Harvard Review, and, Prairie Schooner. Anthology publications include Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems about Marriage, and Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and teaches writing workshops.
