Stuck: Poems Midlife [Hardcover]

Rodger Kamenetz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1997

These are emotionally powerful poems that speak to the condition of midlife, of being in the narrow place, stuck between the present and the future, between the demands of work and family, between the hope for joy and the desolation of loss. The pain of broken marriage, the tragedy of daily life, the struggle for identity, and the self-doubt of middle age are multiplied into passionate voices that rage, plead, joke, and shout. The language, tough yet dynamic, wraps itself around the images, which are at times deeply disturbing, at times strangely humorous but always honest, open, and real.

Editorial Reviews

Review

These are grim and meaty poems, carefully crafted and tight. The experiences dealt with are those that break people, but these poems are far from broken. For a slender volume, it is remarkably substantial. --Marge Piercy, author of City of Darkness, City of Light: A Novel

About the Author

Rodger Kamenetz was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1950. He graduated from Yale University; he also studied at The Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University. He was a recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature in 1992. His poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in a dozen major anthologies and in numerous periodicals. Kamenetz currently teaches English and creative writing at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. He has published three books of poems, Nympholepsy, The Missing Jew, and Stuck, and an autobiography, Terra Infirma. Since the publication of The Jew in the Lotus, he has become known for his work in Jewish-Buddhist dialogue. His most recent book of prose is Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 67 pages
• Publisher: Time Being Books; 1st edition (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568090323
• ISBN-13: 978-1568090320
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,528,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rodger Kamenetz lives in New Orleans where he works as a dream therapist. His journeys have taken him to Dharamsala, India where he witnessed an historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama that he recounted in The Jew in the Lotus, and to rural Vermont where he met the dream teacher Marc Bregman of North of Eden, as told in his History of Last Night's Dream. His latest book, Burnt Books, is a dual biography of Franz Kafka and Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and also recounts his journey to the grave of the rebbe in Uman in Ukraine along with tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims.

For more information about Rodger Kamenetz, visit his website at http://kamenetz.com, or meet him on Facebook, or follow him on twitter at
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