Books by Hilda Raz

This elegant and moving collection of poems documents Hilda Raz's experience with breast cancer.

Trans grew out of Hilda Raz's experience with her son's journey to a transgender identity. The collection of poems moves between past and present, allowing Raz to reflect on her own childhood and on her experience with breast cancer to find ways to connect with her son, Aaron.

This collection of poems is an exploration of lives and selves transformed by choice and by chance.

With empathy and compassion, Hilda Raz writes poems that span her private and public lives. Her poems explore the complexities that come with being alive in the world today.

Hilda Raz has long been a significant voice for American poetry. She writes of widows dancing and of squirrels fat in late September, of the power of a woman's voice, solitary, 'blessed to be the womb put to use or not.' Raz brings to her poetry an authority wrought of compassion, of awareness and hard-won wisdom.