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Winner of the 2008 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by David St. John These poems, at once elegant and earthy, reveal the inner workings of the human psyche and show us that sometimes the best defense against terror is making mischief. The Royal Baker’s Daughter was raised on a diet of stone soup and the occasional leftover royal treat. This leaves her with an appetite for authenticity. With nothing but her two deft hands to guide her, she embarks on a journey into the dark forest, “where sticks and stones and absolutes reign and nothing, even sin, is original.” Best Fall book from the Montserrat Review
Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems
In a lifetime of prize-winning work, a poet invents many selves and voices. Barbara Goldberg doubles that by calling upon such a wide range of subject matter, from Medieval history, to her family of origin, to fairy tales, to current events. Women and men from throughout the ages dance, rage, and practice their genius and trickery upon one another throughout these rich and generous pages. Says Stephen Dunn, Barbara Goldberg likens the body to the earth's crust, and adds, '...the deeper / the fault, the more it can hold.' It's a line typical of her capacity for deep sympathy in poems that also manage to be ferocious with precise honesties. Goldberg turns away from nothing, and never separates...
The Fire Stays in Red
"My mother dreams in Arabic, I dream in Hebrew," Ronny Someck has written. Born in Iraq and arriving in Israel as a young child, Someck's Sephardi roots still run deep. His poems are hot, crotic, comic, tragic, agape at the wonders of a tear and a tattoo and a snapshot and a bra and a scarecrow. To read his poetry is to ride a runaway horse. Where else can you find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe and cowboys battling with Rabbi Yehuda Halevi for the hearts and souls of Israelis. Book jacket.
Transformation
This beautiful and intimate anthology of poems of love and war offers a single poem by many of Israel's most gripping poets. Each poem is a world, translated with tenderness and tremendous skill, But there is always an engagement with elemental subjects: peace, fear, sea, lips, dreams, and speech.
Over the Rooftops of Time
In this collection of essays, stories, and poems, award-winning poet and fiction writer Myra Sklarew traces a journey across the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Her point of view is Jewish, though her subjects include science, exile, the future, the Holocaust, the remaining Jewish community of Morocco, Yiddish poetry, the visual arts, and teaching. Many of these pieces deal with personal subjects—the search for a grandfather's birthplace, the death of a mother, the profound effect of a teacher, the struggle of a woman to embrace Judaism. Whether writing about medicine, Messiah, or the first speech of an infant, Sklarew's work finds its roots in Judaism, a Judaism fashioned in large part by the author's own hands. Ultimately, the book is about access, about following one's own curiosity despite the obstacles that might appear along the way. And it is about a kind of belief: that nothing will be wasted, that all that we can learn will have a place in our lives eventually, though we may not know its purpose at the time.
Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present
The first collection of its kind recovers 2,500 years of Hebrew poetry by women.
After the First Rain
This collection of Israeli poetry contains contributions from writers from Yehuda Amichai to Zelda. All are familiar names in their own country and some are translated into English for the first time. The US translators include William Matthews, former president of the Poetry Society of America.
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides us with a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist. Berry has long been one of pop music's most enigmatic personalities. Growing up in a middle-class, black neighborhood in St. Louis, his first major hit song, "Maybellene," was an adaptation of a white country song, wedded to a black-influenced beat. Thereafter came a string of brilliant songs celebrating teenage life in the '50s, including "School Day," "Johnny B. Go...
Waiting for Peace
How do Israelis endure in an environment where terrorist attacks can occur at any time? Why do so many Israelis express messages of hope and not despair? Waiting for Peace is a journey of intimate discovery of life in a society coping with terrorism.
