Bernard Horn's first book of poems, "Our Daily Words," won the the Old Seventy Creek Press 2009 Poetry Prize and was named a "Must Read" book and a finalist for the 2011 Masschusetts Book Award in Poetry. with the commendation, "Bernard Horn's poetry in Our Daily Words holds the beating heart of every day's apparently random trivialities. In beautiful language he juxtaposes surprising things that don't go together-except in real life. His poems are organically musical and lift daily experience to spiritual and intellectual intensity." It has been praised by Robert Pinsky, David Mamet, Lawrence Kushner. A. B. Yehoshua, and Alan Feldman. Garrison Keillor chose to read "To My Wife," one of the poems from the book, on Writer's Almanac on NPR. Horn's poems and his translations of poems by Yehuda Amichai have appeared in The New Yorker, Moment Magazine, The Manhattan Review, The Mississippi Review and The Worcester Review. He has been a guest at Rosanna Warren's Theory and Practice of Literary Translation Seminar at Boston University, speaking on "Issues of Allusion, Multiple Meaning, and Playfulness in Translating Yehuda Amichai's Hebrew," and has given many readings in the US and Israel. He is the author of "Facing the Fires: Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua," the only book in English about Israel's preeminent novelist. He has written critically about modern Hebrew literature, the Hebrew Bible, and American literature and has recently completed his first play. He was awarded a Fulbright and five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Connecticut, he is a professor of English at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. Email him at bhorn@framingham.edu, and see him read his poems at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival at http://www.accelacast.com/programs/1/40078469/index.html.
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Bernard Horn is too much the adoring disciple,
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This review is from: Facing the Fires: Conversations With A.B. Yehoshua (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) (Hardcover)
After having read four of A.B. Yehoshua's novels, I can state with confidence that he is one of the finest writers around today; however, Mr. Yehoshua's political views are nothing if not controversial and Bernard Horn does the reader a disservice by tossing him one cream puff question after another.
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A first-rate novelist and very poor thinker,
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This review is from: Facing the Fires: Conversations With A.B. Yehoshua (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) (Hardcover)
These interviews are with one of the finest Hebrew language writers working today. Yehoshua is an outstanding storyteller and creator of character.
However as a thinker he tends to return to a few fixed ideas, ideas which in some cases are based on ignorance. One of these ideas is that the Jews in the Diaspora had no real creative power or identity of their own. The second is that the Jewish state should help create an Arab state within the total land West of the Jordan, and that while withdrawing all Jews from it the state of Israel should support and encourage the development of a large Arab minority within it. In other words Yehoshua is for a Judenrein Arab state, and a Jewish state which is in good part Arab. And for no Diaspora at all. This book does not probe Yehoshua very deeply. He does talk about his own literature with some insight. But the questions could have been deeper and the book a lot better.
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