Word: harrision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANHATTN AS A Second Language grapples with the power of language. The women in Jana Harris's poems are imprisoned or empowered by words, even the tones and textures of their voices or other voices. Even her worst poems are valid experiments displaying the voices of people Harris has heard...
Harris's women are also imprisoned by the thoughts about men that they voice; some call the names of dead husbands, for instance. Others, imprisoned by job descriptions, define themselves by what they do. To describe her life's purpose, one woman says. "I canned them pears/and I canned them...
In fact, Harris risks avoiding her own voice in some of the poems. Some of these works use a man's voice to tell a tale through his letters, with almost no interjections from the poet herself. Harris's interpretations of the man and his letters lie in how she...
At the Decatur Federal Savings & Loan Association in Georgia, more than 2,600 savers started IRAS in the first six weeks of the year. Says Decatur Federal President Robin Harris: "I was stunned when I saw the figures."
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle∙Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed∙How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Peisico∙Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling∙Scenes of Childhood...