The place of understanding: A poem - Hardcover

9780936044064: The place of understanding: A poem

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0936044063 ISBN 13: 9780936044064

A long poem, comprised of numerous shorter poems, chronicling the experience of Jews and Gypsies in Central Europe from the last years of the Hapsburg Empire to 1940. It recounts the coming of the Deer Man, as one of the Righteous, to redress in Nazi Austria the persecutions these people endured. 61 pp. $6.00.

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J. W. Rivers (1934-1996), poet, writer of stories in both English and Spanish, was raised in Chicago and lived in Mexico, Ohio, Arizona, and both South and North Carolina. His works include "The Chicago Notebook: Memories of the South Side" (Spoon River Poetry Press, 1979); "Proud and On My Feet" (U. of Georgia Press, 1986); "When the Owl Cries, Indians Die. Poems of Mexico and the Southwest" (Assoc. University Presses, 1986); "The Lady in Once-White Shoes. Poems of the Colonial Frontier: (American Studies Press, 1989), and "The Place of Understanding" (The Pikestaff Press, 1994).

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