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Title

The insatiable psalm : poems / Yermiyahu Ahron Taub.

Author

Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron

Publication

Hershey, Pa. : Wind River Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

x, 144 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Steeped in Jewish tradition and lore, The Insatiable Psalm is an exploration of the troubled but enduring love between a devout mother and her increasingly less observant son. Taub's debut collection navigates highly charged emotional terrain in a compassionate and elegiac voice."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Jewish families > Poetry
• Jews > Poetry
• Mothers and sons > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Our days were painted. molly néni's song -- immigrant eyes, averted -- father grocer -- invasion -- ode from a distance -- in the thermometer factory -- after theory -- lana, lost on the way -- eye contact -- volozhin, surpassed -- celebration after a secret meeting with queen esther -- ghetto noctune -- first signs -- one voice: rabbi's wife and friend -- tsholnt -- scarcity -- picnic withheld -- retrenchment -- vigil -- arrangement without sun -- dust into stars -- restoration rendezvous -- passover guide -- still life, with mirrors -- talmudic discourse in the maternity ward -- friday night formations -- a house calling -- kindergarten blues -- instead of school -- other tongues (in case of flight) -- identity confirmed -- months that flu -- the filth box wreaks havoc! -- to the music of melancholy -- preparing to dance. English ; Yiddish -- the question of moishe oysher -- the last physical exam -- homage restored: bar mitzvah fantasia -- boy late to prayer --^
• chocolate chip dialectic -- kitchen espionage -- the ladies' circle slackens -- figure prostrate on tishah b'av stone -- descent: internal excursion in the second person -- east central european paradigms -- answers on the respite banks -- in praise of hope and honeydew -- questions of dress -- suggested retirement -- iris outside time -- despite virtue -- insulin mikveh -- invitation to psalm -- caravaggio's latest boy -- issue, hovering -- night of awe -- don't relinquish glamour, child -- post parade ceremony: pride day, 199- -- advice -- prediction: bowery yom kippur -- croquis in dust and shadow -- medical breakthrough -- the patriarch's power -- current affairs -- culinary miracle -- under linen trees, whispers -- and from there to water -- before and after introduction -- implications of bread -- II. Archaeology of sugar: methods. way of the footnote -- woman of letters -- owning the terrain of detail -- memorandum to the beleaguered graduate student --^
• women at the barricades -- in the attic, on the ocean floor -- notes from another tradition -- red ink, white space -- in the quick already gone -- the other woman -- negotiation suspended -- the earliest review -- silk tabernacle -- sandscape -- expanded empire -- political funeral -- by the grave: 'historian' and craft -- behind siesta eyes -- the unforsaken.

ISBN

0972151389

LCCN

^^2005005807

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library