Longing: Poems of a Life, Paperback

What do we long for as we carry the traumas of our past and look into the future with guarded hope? In Longing: Poems of a Life, acclaimed poet Merle Feld tells her intensely personal story while naming profound human experience. Feld opens forbidden doors and long-shuttered windows, peering through the lattices of memory at moments of anguish, breaking, blessing, surviving. We accompany her through early family violence, isolation, the discovery of community and love; we witness her climb from the loss of possibility to the assertion of self-worth and purpose. Threading through the years are conversations with a mother long gone-"a slip of a girl" whose misplaced loyalty and endless capacity for loving are both cautionary tale and guidepost. Deeply Jewish yet universal, these gripping poems will stay with you.

• Dimensions: 229 x 152
• Author: Merle Feld
• Cover type: Paperback
• Publishing Year: 2022
• Publishing Month: 11
• Pages: 114
• Language: English
• Publisher: Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Weight: 163 g