This collection of work spans a twenty year period providing commentary on various facets of the poet's life. From an Oklahoma childhood to Kathmandu cafe's, Rafaela writes as physician, wife, traveler and passionate Jew. These vivid accessible poems witness the slow decline of a grandmother once fierce, the death of a mother, and chronicles college-bound children who have no trouble leaving/she calls repeatedly to say it/ goodbye mom/ good-bye.The poems are arranged with a narrative structure which describes relationships and celebrates the complexity of family life; explores Jewish themes and three thousand year old gossip; provides front line reports from exotic locales (an around-the-world trip taken with her family) and perspectives as a physician.

Poems Along the Path

Literature & Fiction

Rafaela, Judith

Poetry

Sherman Asher Pub

A poetic documentary, the title reflects the biological marker of maleness, the "XY" chromosome. This poetic documentary of 170 poems celebrates the complex lives of men at the end of the twentieth century. The poets, male and female, young and old, straight, gay, adopted personas, and ethnically diverse have written about masculine myths, mysteries, and every day life with honesty and tenderness. 
The book is organized into files representing facets of the male experience: work, love, fathers and sons, outdoor life, the body, risk taking, archetypes, elegies and what men talk about. The editors note that the book is dedicated to the men in their lives who challenged us, cherished us, infuriated us and been our allies.

XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience

Arts & Photography

Sherman Asher Publishing

What is peace? We value it so highly but find it so difficult to define, recognize, or grasp. Is it something that is given to us? Do we make it anew each day, like bread? Can we start where we are? Does it have anything to do with our lives and how we think, or is it about the politics of nations? One hundred forty poems teach, inspire, and awaken us to the meaning of peace. Includes work by Naomi Shihab Nye, Judy Chicago, Arthur Sze, Margaret Randall, Joy Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Ruth Stone, Thomas Fitzsimmons, and many others.

PRACTICE OF PEACE

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Poems Along the Path

XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience

PRACTICE OF PEACE