David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws
upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a
stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most
ambitious work to date. It covers an expansive range of subjects --
from love, sex, and romance to repentance, humility, the meaning of
democracy, Existentialism, modern European history, military
intelligence, and the rituals associated with faith and prayer. The
title poem, "Yeshiva Boys," is a work in twelve parts that blends
the elements of espionage fiction, memory, history, and moral
philosophy. It reflects David's experience as a student in an
orthodox Yeshiva, and it, along with many other poems in the book,
explores what it means to be a Jew in America, what is gained and
lost in assimilating to secular culture, how to understand the
peculiar destiny of the Jewish people, and how to reconcile the
existence of God with the knowledge of evil. Beautiful,
provocative, and accessible, this is David Lehman's most inspired
collection.
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