In 1990, the international bestseller, The Book of J (1990),
co-authored by David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom (Grove; Faber in
the U.K.) was followed by several books of poetry and prose (A
Poet's Bible is the first biblical translation to win a major
literary award), and then, in 2013, A Life in a Poem began as a
Guggenheim Fellowship project. Now, in this trailblazing narrative
about where we are going as a species, Rosenberg shows us how he
became a writer both ancient and contemporary. The crucial Jewish
poet of his time, rooted in the Hebrew of the Bible and the
existential sublime of the New York School, Rosenberg has been read
so far, by Jews and non-Jews, mainly for his experimental vision.
Donald Hall described him as "an ancient Hebrew biblical poet as if
writing today in the rhythms of the United States". Among critics,
Harold Bloom states that "the play of languages emerges in
Rosenberg as it does not in King James," while Frank Kermode wrote
in the New York Times Book Review, "he must somehow be modern as
well as faithful to the past, reproducing an ancient, strange,
uncanny vigor, bearing in mind American poetry's struggle with
natural speech". More recently, Adam Kirsch writes that Rosenberg
is "replacing the doubtful miracle of divine inspiration with the
genuine miracle of poetic inspiration", and Oxford's John Barton
describes his work in the New York Review of Books as "neither epic
nor romance nor tragedy nor comedy yet all these at once". These
words may now apply as well to Rosenberg's innovative new memoir, A
Life in a Poem.
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