SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol V/I (Mar 1986)

William Pillin’s Last Poems

Here is the table of contents from this issue (excerpts are available here):

Section Author Title Page
WILLIAM PILLIN'S LAST POEMS Biographical Note 3
Pillin Interview 4
Yohrzeit 7
Dream 8
Electric Heater 9
Saying the Shema 10
Judy Kronenfeld My Immigrant Mother Transplanted 11
A.M. Kritch The Kiddie Train 12
Benjamin Saltman Bert Meyers 15
Maurya Simon Men in My Life 16
Gary Pacernick Requiem 17
Dan Liebert What Jacob Stole 18
Mordecai Marcus Eve and Lilith 19
Eduard Roditi Abulafia's Failure and Success 20
Eduard Roditi The Birth of Rachel, the Great Tragic Actress 21
Bernhard Frank Samson (II) 22
Wade Newman Abraham and Isaac 23
Seymour Mayne Another Son 24
Seymour Mayne Going Up 25
George Bogin Notes on a Black Sheep 26
S.F. Chyet Untitled 28
S.F. Chyet First Samuel 28 29
Steven Schneider Day on the Dead Sea 30
Steven Schneider Ninth of Av 31
Steven Schneider My Wife 32
B.Z. Niditch Return to Auschwitz 33
Charles Fishman For the Yiddish Poets 34
Celia Dropkin He Is She 35
Abraham Sutzkever Yesterday 36
Notes On Contributors 37

A pdf of the table of contents from the original issue is available here.