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Yeshiva Boys
By: David LehmaneBook Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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David Lehman, a poet of wit, ingenuity, and formidable skill, draws upon his heritage as a grandson of Holocaust victims and offers a stirring autobiographical collection of poems that is his most ambitious work to date. It covers an expansive range of subjects -- from love, sex, and romance to repentance, humility, the meaning of democracy, Existentialism, modern European history, military intelligence, and the rituals associated with faith and prayer. The title poem, "Yeshiva Boys," is a work in twelve parts that blends the elements of espionage fiction, memory, history, and moral philosophy. It reflects David's experience as a student in an orthodox Yeshiva, and it, along with many other poems in the book, explores what it means to be a Jew in America, what is gained and lost in assimilating to secular culture, how to understand the peculiar destiny of the Jewish people, and how to reconcile the existence of God with the knowledge of evil. Beautiful, provocative, and accessible, this is David Lehman's most inspired collection.
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| Title of Religion eBook: Yeshiva Boys | |
| Release Date: 11-17-2009 | |
| Publisher: Scribner |
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Yeshiva Boys
On Purpose
"What is the purpose of your poems?"
I'm glad you asked me that
as I stand here in Mr. Ferry's eleventh-grade English class
in Lake Forest High School
I have given a lot of thought to "purpose"
Walking with a purposeful air in New York City
has obvious benefits in the chill of the night with wind
and it's even better when it's no bluff
you do know where you're going
from day to day
and you know when it's over
so it's like a story with a beginning middle and end
yet you could not tell me the purpose
of high school humiliation and I could not tell you
the purpose of this dream where you get up from these desks
and go to college and become lawyers or failures or soccer moms
and when you wake up you will have no recollection
of this encounter in the dark but it will linger nevertheless
and bring refreshment to your soul
Copyright © 2009 by David Lehman
Homily
Man has the will
to grieve
a week and no longer.
Ever the stranger
he will kill
with righteous anger.
What does he believe?
In his right to trade
a season of greed
for an hour
of love in an unlit corner.
Such is love's power,
though it last no longer.
And such is his need
than which nothing is stronger.
Copyright © 2009 by David Lehman
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