A Cleft in the Rock - Softcover

Kaminsky, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948017032 ISBN 13: 9781948017039

Publisher: Dos Madres Press, 2018

Synopsis

Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Marc Kaminsky's A CLEFT IN THE ROCK is a monumental achievement. At home in no world, Kaminsky has an uncanny gift for walking between worlds, traveling like a courier from the personal to the archetypal. I know of no poet whose work, passionate and visceral, inscribes itself so readily in typological time, the perpetual present of Biblical story, psalm, and creation myth. Meticulously grounded--in Yiddishkeit, the maelstrom of the family, wholehearted married love, the struggles of the aging body--these poems open onto absolutes. The chords they strike have extraordinary resonance: a dying father and Moses' encounter with God, a hospital procedure and an interrogation site. Kaminsky visits the depths to find how to 'live / with catastrophe in the world / of signs and wonders.' His book is itself a cleft in the rock, a site of hard-won emotional possibility in a stone-hearted age. These are poems of naked vulnerability and contingency; they remind us what it means to be whole and human."--D. Nurkse

About this title

About the Author:

Marc Kaminsky is a poet, essayist, and psychotherapist in private practice in Brooklyn. He is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including The Road from Hiroshima (Simon and Schuster), Daily Bread (University of Illinois Press) and Kafka's Ax (Junction Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Voices within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets, Atomic Ghost, and The Oxford Book of Aging. He has published six books and many essays on aging, reminiscing and storytelling, and the culture of Yiddishkeit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dos Madres Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1948017032
• ISBN 13: 9781948017039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130