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Migrations : poem, 1976-2020

ISBN: 9781681375700
ISBN: 1681375702
ISBN: 9781681375717
Physical Description: print 296 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2021]

Gervitz, Gloria 1943- (author.). Schafer, Mark, (translator.).

Summary: "Forty-three years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gervitz's book is an epic journey in free verse through the individual and collective memories of Jewish women emigrants from Eastern Europe, a conversation that ranges across two thousand years of poetry, a bridge that spans the oracles of ancient Greece and the markets of modern Mexico, a prayer that blends the Jewish and Catholic liturgies, a Mexican woman's reclamation through poetry of her own voice and erotic power. Gervitz's work has been compared to the works of Whitman, Eliot, Pound, and Guillén. Pulitzer-prize winning poet and translator Forrest Gander has called Migrations 'one of the great poems of the 21st century'"--