Tablet Fragments
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Tamar Rubin grew up immersed in Hebrew, Jewish traditions and texts, in a secular household, the daughter of an immigrant mother. As an adult, and in becoming a physician, she learned yet another language: medicine. The poetry in Tablet Fragments, Rubin's first published collection, weaves between Hebrew and English, to explore the texts of her upbringing, and to use biblical and medical language to explore her identities: outsider and insider; Canadian and immigrant; doctor and patient; wife and individual; child and would-be mother. The collection is divided into six sections, which mirror the books of the Torah. As Rubin moves between perspectives, she explores the personal impact of migration and displacement, the evolution of familial and romantic relationships, and religious faith and scientific fact.
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Tamar Rubin is a Winnipeg physician, writer and mother. She has published her work in both literary and medical journals, including Vallum, Prairie Fire, CV2, The New Quarterly, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Hippocrates Medical Poetry Anthology, and others. Her unpublished chapbook, Tablet Fragments, was shortlisted in Vallum's 2017 chapbook contest, and her poems were long listed in Room magazine's 2017 Poetry Contest and CV2's 2018 Young Buck Contest.