Collection of poetry by Jean Nordhaus. A fine softcover copy. Light spine fading. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. NOT ex-library. 81pgs. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0931846315. ISBN/EAN: 9780931846311. Inventory No: 015971.

Bracelet of Lies

Literature & Fiction

Nordhaus, Jean

Poetry

Washington Writers' Pub. House

These poems take the reader on an imaginary journey through the great Jewish thinker’s life, revealing a man who embraced the secular world while retaining his identity as a Jew. The title refers to the 25 life-size apes Mendelssohn was forced to buy as a married Jew under Frederick the Great. “A brilliant cycle of poems.... A shining poetic monument to a unique individual.” — Moshe Dor, poet and journalist

The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn: Poems

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Poetry. Taking her title from the kabbalist creation tale of the clay vessels that had to break so God's light could scatter through the universe, Nordhaus mourns and celebrates a world that comes into being through continuous acts of breakage. She recalls a child who would eat nothing broken, a kewpie doll with a crack that 'spidered across his plaster skull' with blackness trickling from 'the hollow place inside,' conjures a spark of light that 'splashed into the teacup of a skinny Jew named Kafka,' and details the clash between religious and ethnic longings and the realities of violent conflict in a sequence of poems set in Israel and the West Bank. Ranging over time and continents, the poems in MEMOS FROM THE BROKEN WORLD, tell of our longing for the perfection of 'snow in the morning / before any footstep has broken the crust' and of the various strategies we humans devise, as we pursue happiness in an imperfect world. "'Time eats everything up,' writes Jean Nordhaus, and that includes our griefs as well as our joys. Her poems in MEMOS FROM THE BROKEN WORLD stand as antidotes to Time's thoughtless erasures, reminding us—for what else is a memo but a reminder?—that the world is broken so that it may continue. Home and homelessness, exile and restoration, childhood and parenthood, the range of subjects among these short, perfect lyrics is breathtaking. These are poems in praise of the continuities of living."—Mark Jarman "Though these poems can't mend our broken world, they can surely illuminate it for us with their wisdom and craft. Jean Nordhaus is a poet of keen intelligence, her language spare but resonant. This new book offers many pleasures and should earn for its author the large readership she has long deserved."—Linda Pastan "We have the rarity of a book of poetry that sustains a coherence, its parts echoing back and forth upon one another, the interplay of the memos threaded throughout the work and coming finally, in 'Breaking Dishes,' back to us. 'God's light' broken still and the child who still hungers 'for a lost, unblemished land.' Yet it is precisely and only from what is broken that birth is possible. "This is an exceptional, powerful collection of poetry by Jean Nordhaus. The reader will be grateful to live in this landscape and to make the journey with the poet."—Myra Sklarew

Memos from the Broken World

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Bracelet of Lies

The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn: Poems

Memos from the Broken World