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“Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture  (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she ‘studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet’s trajectory.”

—Marilyn Hacker

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. contents
  2. pp. vi-vii
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  1. preface
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. I
  1. Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway
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  1. Old Men
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  1. Born in the USA
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  1. The Marriage Nocturne
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  1. Hunger
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  1. Elegy for Allen
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  1. West Fourth Street
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  1. At the Revelation Restaurant
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  1. Grandchild
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  1. II
  1. A Meditation in Seven Days
  2. pp. 19-31
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  1. Kol Nidre
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  1. III
  1. The Eighth and Thirteenth
  2. pp. 37-39
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  1. Holocaust
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  1. Three Women
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  1. Who Saves a Life: Poem Beginning witha Line by Fitzgerald/Hemingway
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  1. Diaspora
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  1. Listening to Public Radio
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  1. Poem Sixty Years After Auschwitz
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  1. IV
  1. psalm
  2. pp. 57-58
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  1. fire
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  1. judgment
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  1. during the bombing of Kosovo
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  1. the fast
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  1. the shekhinah as exile
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  1. the shekhinah as mute
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  1. the shekhinah as amnesiac
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  1. dark smile
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  1. seasonal
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  1. psalm
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  1. psalm
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  1. psalm
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  1. V
  1. Lamenting the Inevitable
  2. pp. 75-76
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  1. The Bride
  2. pp. 77-79
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  1. Tearing the Poem Up and Eating It
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  1. Divrei: The Settlers
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  1. What Is Needed after Food
  2. pp. 84-85
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  1. VI
  1. The Book of Life
  2. pp. 89-96
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  1. notes
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  1. acknowledgments
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