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    Jewish Professor Releases Book Of Poetry: Explaining Life: The Wisdom of Modern Jewish Poetry, 1960-2010

     
    Jewish Professor Releases Book Of Poetry: Explaining Life: The Wisdom of Modern Jewish Poetry, 1960-2010

    Pace University Professor, Dr. Eleanor Ehrenkranz is pleased to announce the publication of her poetry anthology Explaining Life: The Wisdom of Modern Jewish Poetry, 1960-2010, which is a collection of the best recent poems by Jewish-American, Yiddish and Israeli poets. These poems reflect the intensity of experiences ranging from love, loss, family relationships, death alienation, war to spiritual renewal. They ultimately explain why life is worth living.

    Some of the authors and poems are:

    Natan Alterman: Song of Love and Pain
    Yehuda Amichai: Precise Woman
    Hamutal Bar-Yosef: When You Stay Here
    Agi Mishol: Woman Martyr
    Anthony Hecht: Saul and David
    Rachel Korn: I Am Soaked Through By you
    Robert Pinsky: The Night Game

    Recent Praise:
    "Eleanor Ehrenkranz's Jewish poetry anthology encapsulates the agony of the Middle East in distilled images that pierce the heart" - Tovah Feldshuh, actress

    "I have to admit that I don't usually like poetry . . . But ever since I first read it, I have made an exception for Yankev Glatshteyn's Praying the Sunset Prayer, which expertly performs what I believe to be the function of art: to suggest to us why life is worth living" - Dara Horn, novelist

    "I loved reading Robert Pinsky's poem The Night Game. It is wonderfully wise and evocative, characteristically American and Jewish. I see, in Pinsky's words, the limitless opportunities of America through the lens of America's game, baseball" - Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

    "Rachel Korn's I Am Soaked Th rough By You is a beautifully economical history of love, soaked through with passion, tenderness and gratitude" - Judith Viorst, poet and novelist

    Book Information:
    Explaining Life: The Wisdom of Modern Jewish Poetry: 1960 to 2010
    Author: Eleanor Ehrenkranz
    Publisher: AuthorHouse
    ISBN: 978-1468509144
    Published: February 2012
    Pages: 228

    About The Author:
    Dr. Eleanor Ehrenkranz, a professor at Pace University, received her doctorate from New York University where she also taught. She lectures nationally on Jewish literature at JCC's and synagogues and writes book reviews for Jewish Book World.

    She has four children and many grandchildren. Currently, she lives in White Plains, NY.
    For more information, review copies, or interviews please contact the author at:

    Eleanor Ehrenkranz
    E-mail: TeacherEE@aol.com
    Website: http://www.modernjewishpoetry.com

    Explaining Life is available for purchase online through the author’s website, from the publisher, Amazon.com, BN.com, and other online retailers. Bookstores should contact Ingram for wholesale orders.

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