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The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry

by Deborah Ager (Editor), M. E. Silverman (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (September 26, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1441188797
  • ISBN-13: 978-1441188793
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn exciting, inventive new anthology
By Barbara Daniels on November 28, 2014
Format: Paperback
There’s much to praise in this new anthology—many less-familiar voices as well as established, widely- published, award-winning poets, all born after World War II. Here are poems about baseball, a baby’s first sweet bite of applesauce, planting trees in Israel, pursuing Judaic studies in Lincoln, Nebraska, lighting yahrzeit candles, playing klezmer music, and taking part in a dance class for twelve year olds preparing for bar mitzvah season. Poems on ancient texts, Gertrude Stein, Jerusalem, sleepwalkers, Yiddish proverbs, space travel, and Yom Kippur are included as well as poetry on many other subjects, both sacred and secular.

Among the book’s delights are the many women writers, more than half of the 112 authors, a welcome improvement over past anthologies of this type. “I want to learn / the shape of faith,” Yvette Neisser Moreno’s poem claims, and the aesthetic in this anthology is broad enough to include “God of all secular Jews who lean / toward Buddhism, give me the skill and poise to play / that elegiac Bach line with fluidity,” lines from a poem by Elizabeth J. Coleman.

When Nomi Stone takes up the subject of “The Fall of the First Temple, 586 B.C., Jerusalem,” she says of the temple priests that
they must learn to make
a meadow a temple, an act or an absence of
an act, a temple. They weep and then
become their altar.

This necessity, to make anew, informs this collection. For example, Jacqueline Osherow writes about composing a wonderful Yiddish poem though she doesn’t speak Yiddish:
It’s even a question
whether God Himself
can make out the text of my Yiddish poem.

Readers won’t face the difficulties Osherow humorously ascribes to God. Most of the poems are in accessible free verse.Read more ›
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