Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Winner of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry\nWinner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023) 
Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022)\nA trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For fifty years, Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost Yiddish writer, a Palestinian boy in Gaza, and various people in her life. In her introduction to Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Adrienne Rich wrote: "[Klepfisz's] sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless." Her Birth and Later Years was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Literature & Fiction

Klepfisz, Irena

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

Different enclosures

Onlywomen Press

Keeper of accounts

Persephone Press

Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes

"Delicious, substantial and necessary.... Klepfisz casts out her words with passion and lucidity."--Sojourner¶"A stirring, thought-provoking collection."--Publishers Weekly

History

World

The Eighth Mountain Press

Few Words In The Mother Tongue

History & Criticism

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