Darkling

Anna Rabinowitz unflinchingly takes on these questions as she looks back on the ruptured history of the 20th century. Drawing on literary roots of Thomas Hardy's ""The Darkling Thrush"" and the ancient acrostic form, she has shaped an utterly original, deeply personal work which is both armature and repository for an emotionally charged language called upon to articulate that which cannot be fully spoken.
With Darkling, Anna Rabinowitz brilliantly demonstrates that one can, indeed, write poetry after the Holocaust.

Anna Rabinowitz's most recent volume of poetry is The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders (Tupelo Press, 2006). Her book-length acrostic poem, Darkling: A Poem, also available from Tupelo Press, has been adapted into an experimental, multi-media music theater work by American Opera Projects and had a limited run from February 26 through March 18, 2006 at the 13th Street Theatre, NYC, with a gala opening night on February 28, 2006. Excerpts from this theater work, along with panel discussions, were presented at the Guggenheim Museum in November, 2005. Rabinowitz's other books include At the Site of Inside Out, which won the Juniper Prize.