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| ISBN: | 9780307517906
030751790X
9781299228696
1299228690
0805242295
9780805242294
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| Notes: | Includes indexes.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | Irving Feldman is a master chronicler of our collective experience and an overlooked treasure of American poetry. Feldman's rich body of work exhibits his mastery of language from the biblical to the conversational, his Yiddish flair for the comic, his profound social insight and lucidity. He writes about everything from the Coney Island days of his childhood and his bohemian years in postwar New York to the art of Picasso and George Segal, from the Holocaust to its aftermath'in narrative and dramatic poems and personal lyrics that are by turns ardent, witty, biting, ecstatic, and heartbreaking. Long a favorite among his fellow poets (John Hollander has called his work "amazing in its moral intensity"), Feldman has remained true to the soul's deepest callings: I have questioned myself aloud at night in a voice I did not recognize, hurried and disobedient, hardly brighter. What have I kept' Nothing. Not bread or the bread-word. What have I offered' Rebel in the kingdom, my gift has wanted a grace. This glorious gathering of poems displays Feldman's entire career in all its variety and passion, and confirms his place among the great poets of our time. From the Hardcover edition
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| Other form: | Print version: Feldman, Irving, 1928- Poems. Selections. Collected poems, 1954-2004. 1st ed. New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, ©2004
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| Publisher's no.: | EB00167646 Recorded Books
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