Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Der fremder in der fremd. Searching for my Father's Body -- The Widow and Daughter -- From periods of stress (1975) -- 3. During the war -- Pows -- Herr captain -- Death camp -- About my father -- Perspectives on the second world war -- II. Conditions -- Periods of stress -- Please don't touch me -- Dinosaurs and larger issues -- When the heart fails -- It was good -- Flesh is cold -- They're always curious -- They did not build wings for them -- The fish -- III. In between -- The house -- Blending -- Edges -- Aesthetic distance -- Self-dialogues -- Two Sisters: Helen and Eva Hesse (1978) -- An Introduction -- Two Sisters: A Monologue -- Keeper of Accounts (1982) -- I. From the Monkey House and Other Cages -- Monkey 1 -- Monkey 2 -- II. Different Enclosures -- Contexts -- Work Sonnets/with Notes and a Monolgue about a Dialogue -- I. Work Sonnets -- II. Notes -- III. A Monologue about a Dialogue -- A Poem for Judy/beginning a new job -- III. Urban Flowers -- Mnemonic Devices: Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, 1981 -- Royal Pearl -- Lithops -- Aesthetics -- Winter Light -- Oleander -- Cactus -- Abutilon in Bloom -- IV. Inhospitable Soil -- Glimpses of the Outside -- A place -- A visit -- A place in time -- Mourning -- Bashert -- These words are dedicated to those who died -- These words are dedicated to those who survived -- 1. Poland, 1944: My mother is walking down a road -- 2. Chicago, 1964: I am walking home alone at midnight -- 3. Brooklyn, 1971: I am almost equidistant from two continents -- 4. Cherry Plain, 1981: I have become a keeper of accounts -- Solitary Acts -- A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (1983 -- 1990) -- I cannot swim -- Di rayze aheym/The journey home -- 1. Der fentster/The window -- 2. Vider a mol/Once again -- 3. Zi flit/She flies -- 4. A beys-oylem/A cemetery -- 5. Kashes/Questions -- 6. Zi shemt zihk/'She is ashamed -- 7. In derfremd/Among strangers -- 8. Di tsung/The tongue -- 9. Di rayze aheym/The journey home -- Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn/A few words in the mother tongue -- Fradel Schtok -- Der mames shabosim/My Mother's Sabbath Days -- '67 Remembered -- Warsaw, 1983: Umschlagplatz -- East Jerusalem, 1987: Bet Shalom (House of Peace) -- Her Birth and Later Years (1990 -- 2021) -- Footnotes: March 1939: Warsaw, Poland -- Warsaw, 1941: The story of her birth -- Pesakh: Reynolda Gardens, Winston-Salem -- 1. Winter -- 2. Spring -- 3. The seder table -- Mitsrayim: Goat Dream -- Der soyne/The Enemy: An Interview in Gaza -- In memory of Razan al-Najjar -- Instructions of the dying elder ... -- Dearest Friend: Regarding Esther Frumkin -- Millet's Flight of Crows -- Five ways to view a drawing -- Mourning Cycle -- Parsing the question -- This House -- Liberation of the roses -- Trees -- Wound: A memory -- Wind chime -- Grief changes and doesn't -- Entering the stream -- Between shadow and night: a treatise on loneliness -- And Death Is Always with Us -- For Jean Swallow: whom I barely knew -- My mother at 99: Looking for home -- My mother's loveseat -- July 22: Geology -- Jamaica Wildlife Preserve: September -- From The old poet cycle -- The old poet reconsiders acting -- The old poet tries unsuccessfully to bring chaos back into her order -- The old poet and Orion -- The old poet's become tired -- The old poet remembers the immigrant girl -- Grief: Brunswick Public Library Maine -- Der fremder in der fremd.
Summary:
"The collected poems of Irena Klepfisz, a feminist, lesbian, Holocaust survivor, and scholar of the Yiddish language. These powerful, searching poems move easily between personal, historical and political, demonstrating the singularity of Klepfisz's work as a vital American voice."-- Provided by publisher.
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