Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora - Softcover

Kerman, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937968227 ISBN 13: 9781937968229

Publisher: Broadstone Books, 2016

Synopsis

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. The broken Aleph—first letter of the Hebrew alphabet—represents the chasm between the author, a secular Jew, and her cultural and religious heritage. The poems in this collection explore her efforts to repair that breach and to find her footing in the world, negotiating the path of history and tradition while fully alive to the present. Though her journey is personal, the reverberations of the work are universal, doing what the best poetry always does, permeating boundaries and opening up a space for wonder to enter the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Kerman has published eight previous collections of poetry, as well as three books of translations of Cuban and Dominican women writers. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic in 2002. She founded "Earth's Daughters" magazine in Buffalo, NY and has run Mayapple Press, located in Woodstock, NY, since 1980. She is Professor of English Emerita from Saginaw Valley State University, where she previously served as Dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences. A literary trailer of her poem, "Fragile," and her video documentary about Dominican Carnaval, as well as clips of several readings, can be seen on YouTube on the Judith Kerman channel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadstone Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1937968227
• ISBN 13: 9781937968229
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84