Written with lyric freshness and wry wisdom, Gensler's poems are the fruit of her lifetime's journey. In this third book of poems, Gensler locates her personal life in the contest of a history learned first-hand as a child in the 1930s and 1940s, traveling on the margins of World War II, shuttling between the US and Palestine: "What you learned as a child was/ you too are a foreigner,/ speaking the difficult American language./ The need to pick your way, to go slowly./ How far the distance is between countries." The poems move through historic time from Genghis Khan to the most recent elections in Israel, and from periods of personal grief to acceptance: "Sometimes I forget to breathe,/ caught in time's crossfire." In the memoir which is the central section of this book of poems, an orange is "the perfect journey fruit... with its thick, faintly pitted skin and its slightly flattened poles like the earth seen from space." Together the poems and memoirs present a unique vision of what it means to be human, a woman, and a Jew, in the twentieth century.
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"In understated poems and brilliant short prose memoirs, Journey Fruit tells of a lifetime's travel ('an orange is the perfect journey fruit'). Kinereth Gensler spent her 1930's childhood winters in Jerusalem and summers in Maine. As a girl, Gensler loved 'the four sister ships of the American Export Line the Exeter, the Excalibur, the Excambion and the Exochorda.' She writes, 'After the war I asked around to see which one of the Exes had survived the Nazi U-boats, but none of them had.' Alert to irony and at ease with sorrow, Gensler offers us a generous, exciting book." -- Alice Mattison
"Kinereth Gensler has travelled far, moving freely across barriers, from Skowhegan to Jerusalem, from Hyderabad to Boston, and she brings everything she knows wildflowers and losses, grief and acceptance into the continuous present of poetry. Journey Fruit is a graceful, wise and rewarding book." -- Chana Bloch
Afterwards
The Ajanta Caves
Alexandria
Anniversary
April Poem
Bat Mitzvah, 1935
Between One Life And Another
Birds
Bowl With Pine Cones
Center
The Colony
Courage
December
Denial
Driving
Elegy For Flute And Cello
Escher's 'three Worlds'
The Family
Freshman, 1939
Gilgal
Going To Jerusalem
A Kind Of Conversation
The Last Parent
The Law Of Signs
Night Train To Vancouver
On The Balcony
Overseas
The Present
Resisting Big Brother
Scanning The Pavement
Writing Poetry
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
"Kinereth Gensler has travelled far, moving freely across barriers, from Skowhegan to Jerusalem, from Hyderabad to Boston, and she brings everything she knows wildflowers and losses, grief and acceptance into the continuous present of poetry. Journey Fruit is a graceful, wise and rewarding book." -- Chana Bloch
Afterwards
The Ajanta Caves
Alexandria
Anniversary
April Poem
Bat Mitzvah, 1935
Between One Life And Another
Birds
Bowl With Pine Cones
Center
The Colony
Courage
December
Denial
Driving
Elegy For Flute And Cello
Escher's 'three Worlds'
The Family
Freshman, 1939
Gilgal
Going To Jerusalem
A Kind Of Conversation
The Last Parent
The Law Of Signs
Night Train To Vancouver
On The Balcony
Overseas
The Present
Resisting Big Brother
Scanning The Pavement
Writing Poetry
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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