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The book of life : selected Jewish poems, 1979-2011 /
"(BLike many Jews, in and out of the synagogue, I wrestle with sacred tradition like Jacob wrestling the angel. The poems gathered here were born of this wrestling, which can never be over."--The Preface.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Pitt poetry series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I""; ""Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway""; ""Old Men""; ""Born in the USA""; ""The Marriage Nocturne""; ""Hunger""; ""Elegy for Allen""; ""West Fourth Street""; ""At the Revelation Restaurant""; ""Grandchild""; ""Part II""; ""A Meditation in Seven Days""; ""Kol Nidre""; ""Part III""; ""The Eighth and Thirteenth""; ""Holocaust""; ""Three Women""; ""Who Saves a Life: Poem Beginning with a Line by Fitzgerald / Hemingway""; ""Diaspora""; ""Listening to Public Radio""; ""Poem Sixty Years after Auschwitz""; ""Part IV
- From the volcano sequence""; ""psalm""
- ""Fire""""judgment""; ""during the bombing of Kosovo""; ""the fast""; ""the shekhinah as exile""; ""the shekhinah as mute""; ""the shekhinah as amnesiac""; ""dark smile""; ""seasonal""; ""psalm""; ""psalm""; ""psalm""; ""Part V""; ""Lamenting the Inevitable""; ""The Bride""; ""Tearing the Poem Up and Eating It""; ""Divrei: The Settlers""; ""What Is Needed after Food""; ""Part VI""; ""The Book of Life""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""