Isaac Meyers
By Isaac Meyers
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Culture Music From Her Own Mind
Look There: New and Selected Poems of Agi Mishol Translated Lisa Katz Graywolf Press, 112 pages, $14.00. Agi Mishol is a major minor poet, the kind with whom, as John Crowe Ransom said, “the poetic object is elected by a free choice… and this object, deliberately elected and carefully worked up by the adult poet,…
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Culture Israel’s Divine Poets
CREATOR, ARE YOU LISTENING? ISRAELI POETS ON GOD AND PRAYER Edited by David C. Jacobson Indiana University Press, 264 pages, $34.95 In an interview, Yehuda Amichai once mentioned that some congregations in America had started to use his poems as tefillot, or prayers, in a synagogue setting. This left him pleased (why not?) but also…
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Culture Chapter and Verse: Two Poets Explore Religion
The Insatiable Psalm: Poems By Yermiyahu Ahron Taub Wind River Press, 144 pages, $14. * * *| Morning Prayer By Eve Grubin Sheep Meadow Press, 96 pages, $12.95 * * *| Yermiyahu Taub named his first book of poems “The Insatiable Psalm,” a striking title that foretells the wealth of fine phrases that fill his…
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Culture A Poet’s Contradictory Properties
For a while now, I have been asking Hasidic Jews, especially women, what they think poetry is supposed to be. In today’s Hasidic world, many view poetry as at worst secular, at best bittul torah, a frivolous distraction from serious learning. The women I’ve spoken to basically agree with this; they consider poetry ornamental or…
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Israel News The Prophet’s Song for the Choirmaster
First Day: EXODUS 19:1-20:23; NUMBERS 28:26-31, EZEKIEL 1:1-28 & 3:12; Second Day DEUTERONOMY 15:9-16:17, NUMBERS 28:26-3, HABAKKUK 2:20-3:19. * * *| Shortly before the Babylonian Exile in 587 BCE, Habakkuk in his workshop meditates on the visions he has seen: Babylonian soldiers storming westward toward the Kingdom of Judah, driven by the wrath of God…
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