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Through Yalen's lens, we are forced to question our own motives, face our individual responsibility to the collective, and own up to the limitations of our (granted, enormous) subjectivity.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NHP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361858085173,"sku":"czz1787285449929","price":6.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/the-hearts-of-vikings-by-lesley-yalen_1.jpg?v=1787285455"},{"product_id":"yarmulkes-fitted-caps-by-samuels-aaron-levy","title":"Yarmulkes \u0026 Fitted Caps by Samuels Aaron Levy","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAaron Samuels, raised in Providence, Rhode Island by a Jewish mother and a Black father, is a Cave Canem Fellow and a nationally acclaimed performer. 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Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children's verse, were set to music and proved to be among the most popular twentieth-century Hebrew songs. An essayist, storyteller, translator, and editor, he had a unique ability to use fully the entire linguistic and conceptual inventory of the Hebrew language. Bialik's career was a turning point in Hebrew literature, bringing Biblical Hebrew into a contemporary usage and forming the basis of its renewed vigor. His legacy remains embedded in modern Hebrew literature like an immovable foundation stone. 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More importantly, with its focus on the life experience and inner world of their tenacious daughter - and as the first poetic project to give voice to a Jewish sex worker, a figure that has been all but erased from literary history - Radiant Shards is a compassionate and humanizing work. The poem invokes Adele Wiseman's 1974 novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCrackpot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, described by Jewish Studies scholars Ruth Wisse as a foundational twentieth-century literary text and by Josh Lambert as a radically feminist work. This book imagines the interior life of the novel's protagonist, an obese Jewish sex worker named Hoda, who services the boys and men of North End Winnipeg during the first half of the twentieth century. In Radiant Shards, Hoda reflects personally and knowingly on the experiences of her complicated life. Against the structural arc of novelistic events that shape her worldview, she plumbs the depths of her suffering and the triumph of her will from a poetically imagined position of maturity and self-awareness. This creative project also incorporates archival\/historical photographs housed in the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and the Archives of Manitoba. These images ground the poet's lyric presentation of Hoda and deepen the resonant voice of a character that originally was modelled on an actual North End resident.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"SMALL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361859297589,"sku":"uhl1787285460208","price":11.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/radiant-shards-hodas-north-end-poems-by-ruth-panofsky_1.jpg?v=1787285465"},{"product_id":"not-in-the-same-breath-a-yiddish-english-book-of-poetry-by-zackary-sholem-berger","title":"Not in the Same Breath: A Yiddish \u0026 English Book of Poetry by Zackary Sholem Berger","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNot in the Same Breath is the first book of original poetry by the poet and translator Zackary Sholem Berger. 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This ambitious debut wrestles with the ethics of love and loss, and bears witness to our collective experience of limitless looking, reminding us that \"the future is coming \/ and we're all in it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"SMALL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361859428661,"sku":"det1787285460413","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/things-that-go-by-laura-eve-engel_1.jpg?v=1787285465"},{"product_id":"the-stray-dog-cabaret-a-book-of-russian-poems-by-paul-schmidt","title":"The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Paul Schmidt","description":"\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. 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Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene―a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSummer Knowledge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e won for him both the prestigious Bollingen Prize in Poetry and the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. lronically, indeed tragically, the praise and prizes Schwartz's poems received did not forestall his decline, and this, his poetic testament, proved to be a final one as well. Overcome by mental illness, alienated from his friends and supporters, he disappeared from the literary scene, in the end to die in 1966 in an obscure Broadway hotel. The tragedy of his life pales before the triumph of his art and craft. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e clearly places him among the foremost poets of his generation.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361859985717,"sku":"zkt1787285462790","price":10.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/selected-poems-summer-knowledge-by-delmore-schwartz_1.jpg?v=1787285468"},{"product_id":"little-stranger-by-lisa-olstein","title":"Little Stranger by Lisa Olstein","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLisa Olstein's third collection reverberates with twinned realities: wonder and terror, beauty and difficulty, celebration and lament. 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In the spirit of Virgil’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAeneid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpoon River Anthology\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e by Edgar Lee Master, it gives voice in symphonic fashion to an assortment of participants (immigrants, border patrol, soldiers, activists, presidents, people dead and alive) involved in the debate on walls. It brings in elements of literature and pop culture, fashion and cuisine. 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In her time Ridge was considered one of America’s leading poets, but after her death in 1941 she and her work effectively disappeared for the next seventy-five years. Her book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ghetto and Other Poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, is a key work of American modernism, yet it has long, and unjustly, been neglected. When it was first published in 1918―in an abbreviated version in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New Republic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethen in full by B. W. Huebsch five months later―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ghetto and Other Poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e was a literary sensation. The poet Alfred Kreymbourg, in a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e review, praised “The Ghetto” for its “sheer passion, deadly accuracy of versatile images, beauty, richness, and incisiveness of epithet, unfolding of adventures, portraiture of emotion and thought, pageantry of pushcarts―the whole lifting, falling, stumbling, mounting to a broad, symphonic rhythm.” Louis Untermeyer, writing in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Evening Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, found “The Ghetto” “at once personal in its piercing sympathy and epical in its sweep. 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