Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 Irena Klepfisz

Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021

Author: Irena Klepfisz
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Book Title
Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021
Author
Irena Klepfisz
ISBN
9780819501080
Collected poems of pivotal Jewish lesbian activistWinner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023)Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022)A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For fifty years, Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost Yiddish writer, a Palestinian boy in Gaza, and various people in her life. In her introduction to Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Adrienne Rich wrote: "[Klepfisz's] sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless." Her Birth and Later Years was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Irena KlepfiszPublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublished: 01/09/2024ISBN: 9780819501080Pages: 296Weight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Collected poems of pivotal Jewish lesbian activist

Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023)
Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022)

A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For fifty years, Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost Yiddish writer, a Palestinian boy in Gaza, and various people in her life. In her introduction to Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Adrienne Rich wrote: "[Klepfisz's] sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless." Her Birth and Later Years was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Irena Klepfisz
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 01/09/2024
ISBN: 9780819501080
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Collected poems of pivotal Jewish lesbian activist

Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023)
Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022)

A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For fifty years, Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost Yiddish writer, a Palestinian boy in Gaza, and various people in her life. In her introduction to Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Adrienne Rich wrote: "[Klepfisz's] sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless." Her Birth and Later Years was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Irena Klepfisz
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 01/09/2024
ISBN: 9780819501080
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 1.30d