So Many Things Are Yours |
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| Author:
| Kosman, Admiel |
| Translator:
| Katz, Lisa |
| Series title: | New Hebrew Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-938890-91-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2023 |
| Publisher: | Zephyr Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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The poet and Talmud scholar examines Jewish texts, sexuality, and human vulnerability in poems that brim with wonder, sadness, sensuality, and humor. Kosman's second volume in English explores Jewish texts --Bible, Talmud, midrash -- alongside bodies, physical desires, military experiences, even a refrigerator. Demons and fantasy enter these poems; so do politics, so does God. These are not religious poems in a conventionally liturgical, "inspirational" sense; yet they...
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The poet and Talmud scholar examines Jewish texts, sexuality, and human vulnerability in poems that brim with wonder, sadness, sensuality, and humor. Kosman's second volume in English explores Jewish texts --Bible, Talmud, midrash -- alongside bodies, physical desires, military experiences, even a refrigerator. Demons and fantasy enter these poems; so do politics, so does God. These are not religious poems in a conventionally liturgical, "inspirational" sense; yet they point to the big questions that religion asks: about love, hate, desire, violence, transgression, disappointment.