What Stillness Illuminated
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491_9781602350922
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WHAT STILLNESS ILLUMINATED/VOS SHTILKAYT HOT BALOYKHTN by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub The poet really means his title. This book was generated from an artists models intensely bodily experience of stillness, observed stillness at that. It is itself a series of brief, formally invariable stills that shine a light on occult links among memory fragments littered over generations of suffering. It is a kind of La Jetée in words. But words, it is still true to say, can do even more, and they can ask more of you. Reading these poems feels almost like writing poetry, and the poetry is of a seriousness and lightness that should inspire its readers to try the excellent and immortal game themselves. Good poetry is contagious, and this haunted, haunting sequence is good poetry. -Mary Baine Campbell I admire the narrative resistance, the precise yet enigmatic details, and the playful, elusive I of these finely attuned and resonant poems. The collections measured trajectory--written in numbered series, of five lines each--ushers us through war, troubled memory, eros, and finally into gleaming--illuminating, as the title suggests, a compellingly multilingual psychic landscape where queerness, redemption, and grace boldly coexist. -Peter Covino Yermiyahu Ahron Taub breathes in and out the air of his past and present in two, sometimes three languages. His poetic element is American English and cosmopolitan New Yorkish (the latter sometimes allows itself to become endearingly parochial). His languages, other than English, are his near-native and fundamentally Jewish Yiddish, as well as his ancestral Hebrew laced with some learned Aramaic of his learned orthodox upbringing. The present volume is as unique as it is multilingual; each poem appears in English and in Yiddish, and in a few cases in contemporary Ashkenazi Hebrew. A rare and astonishing achievement of urban, American, and, yes, truly multicultural poetic creativity. -Dov-Ber Kerl
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