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Poetry: Rosh Hodesh

by Lyn Lifshin
The Ways We are
March 22, 1996

Tags: bodies, Lyn Lifshin, New Moon, poetry, pregnancy, Rosh Chodesh

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Spring 1996

Why Jewish women are choosing to be single mothers. Abortion in fact (today) and fiction (back then). Teen girl angst over four decades. Rosh Hodesh poems.  Cover illustration by Emilya Naymark.

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