Irena Klepfisz

Broschiertes Buch

Her Birth and Later Years

New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021

Beschreibung

Winner of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian PoetryA trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice.

Autor

IRENA KLEPFISZ (Brooklyn, NY) taught Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College for 22 years. She is the author of four books of poetry including Periods of Stress, Keeper of Accounts, Different Enclosures, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, and a collection of essays Dreams of an Insomniac. She was co-editor of The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology. An advocate of the Yiddish language and active in its renaissance in the United States, she has published poetry and essays have appeared in Jewish Currents, Tablet Magazine, In Geveb, Sinister Wisdom, The Manhattan Review, Conditions, The Georgia Review and Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures. Her Birth and Later Years was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780819501080
• ISBN-10: 0819501085
• Artikelnr.: 68444397