Stuck: Poems Midlife - Softcover

Rodger Kamenetz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568090331 ISBN 13: 9781568090337

Publisher: Time Being Books, 1997

These are emotionally powerful poems that speak to the condition of midlife, of being in the narrow place, stuck between the present and the future, between the demands of work and family, between the hope for joy and the desolation of loss. The pain of broken marriage, the tragedy of daily life, the struggle for identity, and the self-doubt of middle age are multiplied into passionate voices that rage, plead, joke, and shout. The language, tough yet dynamic, wraps itself around the images, which are at times deeply disturbing, at times strangely humorous but always honest, open, and real.

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About the Author:

Rodger Kamenetz was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1950. He graduated from Yale University; he also studied at The Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University. He was a recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature in 1992. His poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in a dozen major anthologies and in numerous periodicals. Kamenetz currently teaches English and creative writing at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. He has published three books of poems, Nympholepsy, The Missing Jew, and Stuck, and an autobiography, Terra Infirma. Since the publication of The Jew in the Lotus, he has become known for his work in Jewish-Buddhist dialogue. His most recent book of prose is Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters.

Review:

These are grim and meaty poems, carefully crafted and tight. The experiences dealt with are those that break people, but these poems are far from broken. For a slender volume, it is remarkably substantial. --Marge Piercy, author of City of Darkness, City of Light: A Novel

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