(Parentheses) Poems for the 21st Century

Ricky Rapoport Friesem

ISBN 10: 9659097107 / ISBN 13: 9789659097104

Published by Kipod Press, 2006

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128 pages. 10.00x5.90x0.30 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: (Parentheses) Poems for the 21st Century
• Publisher: Kipod Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9659097107
• ISBN 13: 9789659097104
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.27 kilograms

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Synopsis

First Prize Winner in the Writer's Digest 15th Annual Self Published Book Awards, this beautifully designed poetry collection is an passionate reflection of the poet's multicultural heritage and the conflicts it engenders. Spare and direct, these poems cry out with the voice of a woman whose life has been shaped by the Holocaust that robbed her of a family, by the North America she abandoned and the Israel she adopted, by the sons she raised in peace who found themselves at war, by the ideals she grew up with and the reality she lives with. Sometimes with humor, affection and nostalgia,sometimes with irony, regret and anger, but always with passion, insight and honesty, the poems in Parentheses provide a condensed powerful expression of our era.

About the Author

Ricky Rapoport Friesem is a poet and documentary filmmaker. She has also written two cook books: Fruits of the Earth (Adama Books, 1985) and Joy of Israel (Steimatzky, 1976). For 25 years she worked as a journalist, editor, and award-winning documentary film maker for the Weizmann Institute of Science, whose Communications Department she headed for over a decade. In 2007,she was awarded First Prize in Writer's Digest 2007 International Self-Published Book Awards for her collection of poetry, entitled, Parentheses . Her poetry has appeared in Moment, Ariga, Lucidity, Poetica, the 2007 Voices Israel Anthology and Poetry Canada. She received Honorable Mention in both the 2005 and 2006 Poetica Magazine Annual Poetry Contest, in Lilith Magazine s 2007 Charlotte Newberger Poetry Competition, in the 2007 Reuben Rose Memorial Poetry Competition, and 2nd prize in Palabras Press Dancing with Words contest.. A collection of her poetry, entitled My Intifada was published in the Pudding House Publications Chapbook Series in 2006. She is married to a physicist and has 3 sons and 12 grandchildren.