The Stones of Lifta - Softcover

Kaminsky, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194801758X ISBN 13: 9781948017589

Verlag: Dos Madres Press, 2019

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The poems of Marc Kaminsky's The Stones of Lifta address the heartbreak of a history torqued and twisted by fear and hatred, but this poet's heart remains unbroken, alive, responsive, and attuned to a painful dissonance. He consents, humbly and bravely, to abide with the suffering of both Israelis and Palestinians, to align himself with both his heritage and his empathy, so that the indissoluble contradictions of that conflict become, ultimately, nothing less than the paradox at the heart of being fully, vulnerably, honestly human. -Richard Hoffman Sample: HINANI Unworthy as I am, when I saw footage of my friend Menachem climbing beneath the Jerusalem hills with an old man- a displaced person-an Arab who guided him into the ruins of his home in Lifta, I felt something become as clear and actual to me as if for one pulse beat I heard a voice speaking to my heart. Call it the divine, it is the voice that calls to us once or twice in a lifetime. We recognize it immediately and answer, Here I am, for we remember it from before we were born, and remain ready all our lives to go where it sends us. It spoke clearly and distinctly as I sat with Menachem in my Brooklyn office, watching his unfinished film, it said to me, Go to Lifta, accompany your friend to the emptied village of Lifta, walk beside him as he treads carefully around the boulder that blocks the winding path up to Lifta.

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Marc Kaminsky is a poet and retired psychotherapist. He is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including The Stones of Lifta (Dos Madres Press), The Road from Hiroshima (Simon & Schuster), and Daily Bread (University of Illinois Press). His poems, essays and fiction have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Manhattan Review, The American Scholar, Natural Bridge, The Oxford Book of Aging, and Voices within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets. He has published six books on aging, reminiscence and late-life development, and the culture of Yiddishkeit.

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• Verlag: Dos Madres Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 194801758X
• ISBN 13: 9781948017589
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94
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