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Martin Bidney

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Martin Bidney is a poet, violinist, klezmer fiddler, classical chorister, and folk vocalist. Now in his ninth decade, he has published 61 poetry collections across more than twenty years of what he calls being "reWIRED" rather than retired.

His collection Wordsongs of Jewish Thought — 108 response poems written in a single uninterrupted thirteen-day period of creative fervor in dialogue with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's commentary on the Tanya — has been praised by Rivkah Slonim of the Rohr Chabad Center at Binghamton University as the work of a poet who fully absorbed and transformed the teachings of Hasidic mystical thought into an original, deeply musical literary voice.

A lifelong musician as much as a lifelong poet, Bidney treats every poem a ...more

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Average rating: 4.34 · 65 ratings · 41 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors

	Childe Martin's Pilgrimage: A Verse Memoir in Byronic Stanza Form 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WORDSONGS OF JEWISH THOUGHT: One Hundred Eight Tanya Response Poems 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ALEXANDER PUSHKIN’S VERSE NOVEL EUGENE ONEGIN: A Form-True Dialogic Verse Translation with Lyrical Replies and Supplements by Martin Bidney (Goodreads Author), Alexander Pushkin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God the All-Imaginer: Wisdom of Sufi Master Ibn Arabi in 99 Modern Sonnets with new translations of his Three Mystic Odes 27 full-page calligraphies by Shahid Alam (East-West Bridge Builders Book 6) by Martin Bidney (Goodreads Author), Shahid Alam (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High Five! The William Shakespeare Beat Is Back!: Four Hundred Newly Written Poems Prove It! it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shi-Jing, or Book of Songs: China’s Earliest Verse Anthology by Martin Bidney (Goodreads Author), Friedrich Rückert 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Russia's World Traveler Poet: Eight Collections by Nikolay Gumilev it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eclogues of Virgil, Ancient Roman Country Poems in Their Original Rhythm, with Dialogue Replies in Verse: liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patterns of Epiphany: From Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blake and Goethe: Psychology, Ontology, Imagination really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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