Irena Klepfisz

Her Birth and Later Years

New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 168mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780819500168
• ISBN-10: 081950016X
• Artikelnr.: 63513269

Autorenporträt

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.