This Star of David for people in Exile For those decimated by centuries of horror And unimaginable cruelty by dominant cultures Once symbolized protection from all harm It is now a star of intolerance and retribution Hatikva, once a song of hope for the Diaspora A poem adopted in the 1st Zionist Congress As a […]
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from “Driving by the Lake with John Ashbery” by Douglas Crase left: Larry Rivers’s portrait of John Ashbery and “Pyrography”(circa 1976) Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery John never insisted on being the sole poet you were allowed to admire. Not long after he sent Three Poems he embarked on a mission clearly designed to…
All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and chimeras, something real ahead, just as persons endowed with an unusual persistence of diurnal cerebration are able to perceive in their deepest sleep, somewhere beyond the throes of an entangled and inept nightmare, the ordered reality of the waking hour. …
The eyes have their own vocabulary, They speak in volumes and not just words. The lips, when in silence, merge together, Like the folded wings of roosting birds. The chin holds a stubbornness, That yields subtly to change, now and then, The nose, flared when furious, Breathes steadily and calmly when… The ears listen to…
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The Silver Jews is a band led by singer-songwriter-poet David Berman. In existence with varying personnel since 1990, formed in Hoboken, New Jersey, the Silver Jews has its sole constant in Berman. He is a singer in the same sense that Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen, or Allen Ginsberg is a singer. Vocalizing in a flat,…
