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Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking home in New York. Her debut poetry collection, WOLF LAMB BOMB (Orison Books, 2021), was named a "New and Noteworthy" book by The New York Times and won the 2021 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry. Her first book, The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bible (Spiegel & Grau), was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, a Sami Rohr Prize Finalist, and one of Publishers' Weekly's Top 10 Religion Stories of the Year.

She is The Forward's language columnist and is an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Follow her on Twitter @AviyaKushner. ...more

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Talking Poetry and Faith!

It was a joy to read poems from WOLF LAMB BOMB and have a fascinating conversation with poet and spiritual thinker Rick Chess about the challenges of writing about matters of faith.

Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center in beautiful Asheville, NC, will broadcast this special talk on Wednesday, 7/7 at 1 EST--and it will be online after that. Do join us!

https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/.. Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 05, 2021 13:19 • Tags: poetry-faith-spirituality-bible

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“What Jewish law wants is an ongoing conversation between man and G-d, and between man and man--but most of all, between man and himself. It's not a command, exactly, but a conversation: an inner song, full of melody and refrain, sometimes heard only by what Rabbi Soloveitchik so movingly called the lonely man of faith”
― Aviya Kushner, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

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“Slowly, I understood that the way I read is intertwined with the way my family reads. Investigating the often tumultuous lives of the commentators, reading biographies and looking for patterns, I noticed that the idea of family influencing reading is actually a centuries-old phenomenon.”
― Aviya Kushner, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

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“Translation means that a translator has picked one word above all the others: one winner, with all the finalists gone from the page forever. Translation always calls upon the translator to make a judgement call, and what the reader hears, then, is a judgement”
― Aviya Kushner, The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible

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