SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol VII/I (Mar 1988)

The Poetry of Carl Rakosi and A Student Selection

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Editorial Note 2
POETRY OF CARL RAKOSI Foreword by Rakosi 3
Services 5
Meditation (two poems) 6
Poetics From Chelm 7
No One Talks About This 8
Associations With A View From The House 9
L'Chayim 10
To An Anti-Semite 10
Exercises in Scriptural Writing 11
Four Characters And A Place In The Merchant Of Venice 14
A SPECIAL STUDENT SECTION Editorial Note 18
David Gewanter tuo em teL 19
David Gewanter Bleish The Barber 20
Marilynn Talal Being Children 22
Janet Kaufman El Hader 23
Janet Kaufman Yahrzeit 24
Dan Gerwin Until the Thaw 25
Alex Cigale Grandfather' Village 27
Leilani Ruland Treblinka 28
Lila Hanft The Passover Mute 30
Richard Chess The Jewish Angel 32
Leonard Kress Atonement Day In The Suburbs (1959) 33
Linda Strauss Pesach, 1986 34
Susan Dickman Kfar Sinan 36
Ann Nunes Decision 38
Ronit Rosen Planned Pieces 40
Alyssa Turner Photograph Of Yehuda Labe, My Great-Great Grandfather 41
Elizabeth Knight "Around My Chair There Are White Mastiffs" 42
Leza Lowitz Dividing The Landscape 43
Ken Denberg A Jew Hides In The Woods, Poland 1914 48
Biographical Notes 49

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