Roberta P. Feins’s poetry chapbook Herald (winner of the 2016 Coal Hill Review Contest) reveals the anxiety and power that comes from a woman choosing her own path in the late ’60s. These beautifully crafted poems explore the layers of identity we all contain. This chapbook can be enjoyed by women of all ages as well as anyone who challenges social norms.
I was happy to choose this chapbook for the Coal Hill Review chapbook prize. From my blurb: "Feins writes the way the old Talmudic rabbis would pray. arguing with God in order to return, once again, to the principles of faith. If the sacred is foudn in the profane, this poet seems to reason, then the prayer that celebrates such holiness is found in poetry--the possibilities of form and the limitations of language."