At some point in your life, you will likely hear the maxim that the personal is political. Afterward, you will look at the paraphernalia of your existence, and wonder which parts, exactly, are covered by that idea. Your routine when you wake up? What you choose to cook? What you say when you greet a…
“In a political culture of managed spectacles and passive spectators, poetry appears as a rift, a peculiar lapse, in the prevailing mode,” wrote Adrienne Rich in her 1993 essay “Someone is Writing a Poem.” Later, in the same essay, she tried to explain just how: “In the wash of poetry the old, beaten, worn stones…
● The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Poetry Edited by Deborah Ager and M.E. Silverman Bloomsbury Academic, 272 pages, $120 ● THE EIGHTH DAY By Geoffrey Hartman Texas Tech University Press, 128 pages, $21.95 ‘What does it mean to be a Jewish American poet? Posed as baldly as that”— so wrote the poet and critic…
Adrienne Rich has died, and a voice who provided invaluable insight to the discourse on motherhood, on feminism, on Jewish identity and on sexual politics, has been stilled. Rich, who was 82, died Tuesday at her home in California. Described in her New York Times obituary, as “a poet of towering reputation and towering rage,”…
The Spring 2011 issue of Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal is expected to be the last for the publication, which has been alive and rabble-rousing for 21 years. The journal began back when Adrienne Rich, Elly Bulkin and Ruth Atkin, members of the Feminist Task Force of the New Jewish Agenda, proposed expanding the Task…
How Yiddish poet Itzik Manger brought midrash to the Megillah. Bob Dylan, Brandeis University, 1963: Coming soon to a record store near you. In other Dylanalia, Bob’s upcoming Asian tour now includes stops in both China and Vietnam. David Kaufmann on new poetry by Adrienne Rich. The Hebrew University is putting Albert Einstein’s archives on…
The Sisterhood Digest: • Israel has become a major battleground in the Democratic primary fight between incumbent Jane Harman and challenger Marcy Winograd. Both women vying to represent California’s 36th congressional district are Jewish, but Winograd is much more critical of Israeli policy than is her opponent, and she has accused Harman of being beholden…
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