Winner of the 2008 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by David St. John These poems, at once elegant and earthy, reveal the inner workings of the human psyche and show us that sometimes the best defense against terror is making mischief. The Royal Baker’s Daughter was raised on a diet of stone soup and the occasional leftover royal treat. This leaves her with an appetite for authenticity. With nothing but her two deft hands to guide her, she embarks on a journey into the dark forest, “where sticks and stones and absolutes reign and nothing, even sin, is original.” Best Fall book from the Montserrat Review

The Royal Baker’s Daughter (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Goldberg, Barbara

Poetry

University of Wisconsin Press

In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds. Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and enormously exciting. In a refreshing antidote to skeptical times, he writes of ordinary human courtesies, as simple as busing your dishes after eating, that make society functional and livable. And he writes of extraordinary courage and inventiveness under the weight of adversity and evil. He considers the impact of communal goodness over time, and his sketches of six very different individuals Confucius, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Keats, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Simone Weil confirm that there are human lives that can encourage and lead us to our better selves.Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association"

The Royal Baker's Daughter

Despite all the politics, this anthology manages to showcase two strengths of contemporary Israeli poetry: a stark simplicity and an ability to manipulate familiar Biblical scenes or phrases. Most importantly, this anthology shows American readers a whole slew of poets they might not know because they are never or rarely translate: Maya Bejerano, Chamutal Bar-Yosef, Aryeh Sivan, Eli Alon, and the book's editor, Moshe Dor. For an American reader, these poems of war, history, and Biblical reference are particularly fresh." Aviya Kushner, Harvard Review "Great poetry doesn't necessarily get made out of important subjects. But this is an urgent subject and the poems address it eloquently. War-weariness, piercing sadness, hope." Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World "Despite the formidable obstacles of language, the tragedy of war and hope for peace, the alef and tav of Israeli life, shine through this moving collection. Aaron Leibel, Washington Jewish Week Sixty-five Israeli poets write of their despair over war and their fierce craving for peace. One reviewer wrote "the tragedy of war and hopes for peace, the alef and tav of Israeli life, shine through this moving collection." Among the 35 translators of poems in this collection are the late William Matthews, Henry Taylor, Stephen Mitchell, Linda Pastan, Jane Hirshfield, Myra Sklarew and Shirley Kaufman.- Aryeh Sivan To Live in the Land of Israel To be cocked like a rifle, a hand on your gun, to walk a tight, hard line, even when your cheeks have filled with dust, and your flesh is falling off, and your eyes Can no longer focus on the target. They say that a cocked gun is bound to go off. Well, it isn't. Anything can happen in this Land of Israel. a broken firing pin, a rusty spring, or an unexpectedly canceled order, as was the case with Abraham on Mount Moriah. Translated by Hillel Halkin in memory of Tsvi Hurvitz, pioneer, army commander, and bereaved father

After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace

Dor, Moshe

Dryad Press

Marvelous Pursuits

Snake Nation Pr

Mindy's Passover Parsley

Children's Books

Publishamerica Inc

Selections from a brilliant career in poetry, with sizzling new poems! In a lifetime of prize-winning work, a poet invents many selves and voices. Barbara Goldberg doubles that by calling upon such a wide range of subject matter, from Medieval history, to her family of origin, to fairy tales, to current events. Women and men from throughout the ages dance, rage, and practice their genius and trickery upon one another throughout these rich and generous pages. Says Stephen Dunn, "Barbara Goldberg likens the body to the earth's crust, and adds, '...the deeper / the fault, the more it can hold.' It's a line typical of her capacity for deep sympathy in poems that also manage to be ferocious with precise honesties. Goldberg turns away from nothing, and never separates herself from what's unattractive in us. Throughout I felt in the presence of embodied truth." Lucille Clifton exclaimed that "her vivid imagery, her direct and forceful telling, help warn and counsel her readers. One envies her good eye and celebrates the voice that in its 'hunger for clarity' speaks." While Naomi Shahib Nye calls Goldberg's work "a deep, indelible tonic to the soul," Stanley Kunitz praised "the inventiveness of her mind and the brilliant assurance of her craft." David St. John concludes that "Goldberg shows us how we sometimes choose to devour--over and over again, often relishing their texture--those very wounds that have made us who we are and what we have come to believe." Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. Fairy Tales. History. Gender Studies. WW2.

Breaking & Entering: New and Selected Poems 1986-2021

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