Poem by Poem, Fable by Fable: Discovering My Father and Learning His Language - Softcover

Miransky, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798385218233

Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

At the age of seventy-two, Anna Miransky begins to read her father's poetry and fables in her first and forgotten language, Yiddish. She is changed by what she finds. In his writing, her father, the poet and fabulist Peretz Miransky, a Holocaust survivor and member of the celebrated literary group Yung Vilne, reveals aspects of his inner life about which he had never spoken when he was alive. His daughter discovers new details about family members, his literary colleagues, and his relationship with her mother and stepmother. Most importantly, she discovers Peretz Miransky's lifelong poetic themes and mission to keep Yiddish and the fable form alive and flourishing. Many of Miransky's poems and fables are translated into English to illustrate Anna's discoveries. Throughout the book Anna Miransky examines her complicated relationship with her father through the lenses of language barriers and generational trauma. As she delves deeper into his life, she comes to fully embrace her father, her first language, and her culture.

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Anna Miransky has over forty years of experience as a psychotherapist in both clinical and private practice settings working with survivors of trauma. She edited Peretz Miransky, Selected Poems and Fables (2000). She is also a published and performed musician, songwriter, and lyricist.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798385218233
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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