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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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	WORDSONGS OF JEWISH THOUGHT: One Hundred Eight Tanya Response Poems 4.47 avg rating — 45 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
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	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 — 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
	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
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Martin Bidney said: " WORDSONGS OF JEWISH THOUGHT is a remarkable meeting point between poetry, music, and Jewish spiritual thought. Martin Bidney's response poems feel deeply personal while remaining connected to the teachings of Tanya and Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsal ...more "

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