Migrations : poem, 1976-2020 /
Forty-three years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gervitz's book is an epic journey in free verse through the individual and collective memories of Jewish women emigrants from eastern Europe, a conversation that ranges across...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
[2021].
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| Series: | New York Review Books poets.
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| Summary: | Forty-three years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gervitz's book is an epic journey in free verse through the individual and collective memories of Jewish women emigrants from eastern Europe, a conversation that ranges across two thousand years of poetry, a bridge that spans the oracles of ancient Greece and the markets of modern Mexico, a prayer that blends the Jewish and Catholic liturgies, a Mexican woman's reclamation through poetry of her own voice and erotic power. Gervitz's work has been compared to the works of Whitman, Eliot, Pound and Guillén. Pulitzer-prize winning poet and translator Forrest Gander has called Migrations 'one of the great poems of the 21st century.' |
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| Physical Description: | 296 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781681375700 1681375702 |