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Dead Men's Praise
Poems

English · Paperback / Softback

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With Dead Men's Praise, Jacqueline Osherow gives us her fourth and most ambitious collection yet. Her hybrid inspiration ranges from Dante's terza rima, to free verse, to biblical psalms, while always keeping the voice of casual conversation. In the book's centerpiece, "Scattered Psalms," Osherow takes on the Hebrew psalms, the lyric heart of both the English and Jewish literary traditions out of which her writing comes. Combining the self-mocking inflections of Yiddish jokes with the pure lyric inspiration of biblical poetry, these poems range from Italian hill towns to Los Angeles contemporary art installations to the vanished Jewish world of the Ukraine, from imaginings of the future to recovery of the past. Her distinctive voice becomes a seemingly impossible fusion of the sublime and the down-to-earth.


Product details

Authors Jacqueline Osherow, Osherow Jacqueline
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 07.10.1999
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama
 
EAN 9780802136541
ISBN 978-0-8021-3654-1
Pages 96
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Dimensions (packing) 13.9 x 20.9 x 0.8 cm
Weight (packing) 113 g
 
Subjects USA, Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, United States of America, USA, c 1990 to c 1999, TOPICAL / Inspiration, Religious holidays
 

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