I want to introduce this group to a poetry collection I think you will genuinely appreciate.
Wordsongs of Jewish Thought by Martin Bidney — 108 poems written in 13 extraordinary days. The concept is fascinating: the poet, a lifelong violinist, klezmer fiddler, and classical chorister, calls his poems wordsongs — musical compositions where words take the place of pitches.
Each poem is a creative response to a passage in Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's commentary on the Tanya. Rivkah Slonim of the Rohr Chabad Center praised it as the work of a poet who absorbed the teachings so deeply he generated something entirely his own. It holds a 4.91 average on Goodreads.
For poets and poetry readers here — have you encountered collections where the musicality of language is this central to the work?
Wordsongs of Jewish Thought by Martin Bidney — 108 poems written in 13 extraordinary days. The concept is fascinating: the poet, a lifelong violinist, klezmer fiddler, and classical chorister, calls his poems wordsongs — musical compositions where words take the place of pitches.
Each poem is a creative response to a passage in Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's commentary on the Tanya. Rivkah Slonim of the Rohr Chabad Center praised it as the work of a poet who absorbed the teachings so deeply he generated something entirely his own. It holds a 4.91 average on Goodreads.
For poets and poetry readers here — have you encountered collections where the musicality of language is this central to the work?