Longing: Poems of a Life

by Feld, Merle
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ISBN: 9780881236262
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What do we long for as we carry the traumas of our past and look into the future with guarded hope? In Longing: Poems of a Life, acclaimed poet Merle Feld tells her intensely personal story while naming profound human experience. Feld opens forbidden doors and long-shuttered windows, peering through the lattices of memory at moments of anguish, breaking, blessing, surviving. We accompany her through early family violence, isolation, the discovery of community and love; we witness her climb from the loss of possibility to the assertion of self-worth and purpose. Threading through the years are conversations with a mother long gone-"a slip of a girl" whose misplaced loyalty and endless capacity for loving are both cautionary tale and guidepost. Deeply Jewish yet universal, these gripping poems will stay with you.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Feld, Merle
  • ISBN: 9780881236262
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.24
  • Number Of Pages: 114
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English

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