I and my imaginary lover hover
above the roofs of the Jewish village. Above the courtyards, dairy barns, animal pens.
2012
Bamian: A Photograph from Tricycle, 2000
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2012
Night Stop
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“He has only his open hand and his sweetly accusatory Bless you. We have only to turn our heads and he’s gone….”
Articles
Lamenter-in-Chief
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Let us hope that Pinsky’s new Selected Poems will help to dispel the more jaded views of his accomplishments. For Pinsky is an important figure. He is also, as Tony Hoagland has rightly observed, “a much stranger poet than is generally acknowledged.”
2011
Radical Poets Set Jewishness Adrift
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A review of Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture: Don’t let the title dissuade you from reading this provocative book. The poets and thinkers represented here, many of them groundbreakers in American literature and thought, don’t know what it means either. That’s the point — to define these terms so as to answer a question that has not yet been posed in American poetry: what is radical Jewish poetry and how is it related to secular Jewish culture?
2011
Carving Fresh Initials on the World Tree
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Imagine the ancient artist, before the tribe has gathered, putting aside his charcoal crayon or horsehair brush, chewing lumps of an ochre-rich clay, and spitting it in bursts through a narrow reed, to create a fine mist of color capturing the silhouette of his hand against the wall. Was it a kind of signature?