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Walking backwards / Lee Sharkey.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.H3428 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharkey, Lee, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 89 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Employing lyrics, parables, testimony, paratactic narratives, recastings of Torah stories, and inter-leavings with other texts, these poems reflect upon cultural erasure and persistence. Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, and the Yiddish-language poets Abraham Sutzkever and Peretz Markish become contemporaries in an era of refugees.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The city 21
- Holy 22
- Betrayal 23
- Maimonidies prays 24
- Meditation in red 25
- Equations 26
- Intentions 29
- Pillow 39
- Paris, 1947 43
- In the capital of a small republic 44
- Forage 48
- A ghetto song for the malinas 50
- Antidotes 52
- Wooden synagogue 54
- Degenerate art 57
- A Yosem, A Meydl, 1938 59
- The artist in the ghetto 60
- Old World 61
- Lashing the body from the bones 65
- Verge 69
- I had me a coat of ancient cloth 70
- Lyric 75
- Something we might give 80.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781936797905
- 1936797909
- OCLC:
- 958585869
- Publisher Number:
- 99971067636
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