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Poetry. Jewish Studies. Featuring poems by Ellen Bass, Ed Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Ilya Kaminsky, David Lehman, and many more!Traditional and radical, secular and holy, the poems in 101 JEWISH POEMS FOR THE THIRD MILLENIUM come to us just as we need them. The poets here celebrate a culture and caution against hatred, all the while making incredible art. Silverman and Carlson have gathered a stellar and diverse group of poets and poetic visions...

Carlos Aguasaco's poetry collection renders a voice to the next immigrants' wave, the latest nomads of our world, those that daily ride the subway and continuously reshape the metropolis. In this bilingual collection, the poet emphasizes the migrant experience and daringly reveal a lyrical itinerary through the City of New York"--

Poetry. 'I longed to become / a jellyfish, ' Miho Nonaka writes, 'so transparent no one / could tell my body / from the water I swim in . . .' The self wants both to emerge and to hide, to disappear and to be known. 'Who could have taught me to stay at home in my own body, she asks, all the while I traveled from one country to another . . . ?' Nonaka's position as a citizen of two cultures and many cities, one who is either always outside or e...

Poetry. "Gabriel Spera tiptoes a fine line, maintaining a balance between formalism and free verse, traditional tropes and verbal originality. When Spera casts his long, clause-riddled sentences into a formal structure, the result is often spectacular. The sentences tumble down through the stanzas like downhill skiers, swerving almost breathtakingly to clip the gate of each rhyme.... Spera lets himself be funny at times, sometimes crude, often...

Poetry. Both laughter and tears can catch you by surprise in Barbara Ungar's SAVE OUR SHIP. As you live with these witty, satiric, and at times wrenching poems, you will find that their humor darkens while their sadness grows strangely lighter. Ungar's examination of contemporary mores, mordant while avoiding self-pity, displays a range of moods that recalls the poetry of the late William Matthews, for whom the poet contributes an elegy, 'Dear...

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Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry. Poems by Michael Moos often occupy a liminal space at the edge of the garden about which he so often writes, that edge beyond which wildness begins, a wildness which Moos is not afraid to evoke in his poems. These poems are themselves gardens, spaces where human nature and the natural world can have conversations that are at once sacred and profane. 'What is thirst for, if not for talk...