Prayers of a Heretic: Poems Contributor(s): Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron (Author) |
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ISBN: 1632100193 ISBN-13: 9781632100191 Publisher: Plain View Press, LLC
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: June 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Social Science | Jewish Studies - Poetry | Lgbt |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.83 lbs) 142 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: ------ Taub is a master of the character study. His poems are crowded with portraits, novels in miniature, of the old, the overlooked, the dispossessed. Here you will find Aunt Milkah Pesl, taciturn and unsentimental, the volunteer in assisted living who reads books in Yiddish, the patient in an MRI scanner listening to "a symphony of terror" like "John Zorn on Quaaludes." There are the regulars in a library, and the treasures found hidden in the pages of old books. There are lonely men in search of "fleshly glory." And over-arching all, there are repentance and atonement, constantly remade anew. This book is a feast: sensuous, ironic, political, hilarious, poignant and wise. Intimately Jewish yet embracing of all, its cast of characters includes aged professors, flirtatious landladies, poem-peddlers and the Pied Piper. In "Credo," a stunning poem near the book's end, Taub powerfully defines religion on his own terms, with equal measures of awe, horror and gratitude at the world. Whether he's writing in English or Yiddish, in poetry or prayer, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub has a firm grasp on the language of the heart. His characters, men (including one named Yermiyahu) and women whose only crimes are that they are human, are as familiar as our own reflections. In Taub's skilled and attentive hands, no judgments are passed; heresy is in the eye of the beholder. |
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