SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol IX/I (Mar 1990)

Words and Spirit

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Editorial Note 2
POEMS AND PRAYERS OF JEWISH WOMEN Marcia Cohn Spiegel Introduction 4
Book of Judith 7
Alice Lucas Prayer Before Sleep 8
Hortense Flexner If God Had Known 9
Else Lasker-Schüler To God 10
Malka Heifetz Tussman I Know Not Your Way 11
Nelly Sachs How Long Have We Forgotten How to Listen 12
Zelda Light a Candle 13
Rivka Miriam Fastening the Light of the Sabbath Candles 14
Shulamis Yelin In Your Image 15
Leah Schweitzer Crone 16
Leah Schweitzer Rebekah's Dream 17
Chana Bloch Disquisition 18
Kadia Molodowsky God of Mercy 19
Myra Sklarew Prayer for Endings 21
THE POETRY OF S.F. CHYET S. F. Chyet Introduction 22
S. F. Chyet Meditations for the Season 24
S. F. Chyet Meditations for a Ceremony of Innocence 26
S. F. Chyet Untitled 28
S. F. Chyet Meditation on Jerusalem 29
S. F. Chyet Untitled 30
S. F. Chyet For the Duration 31
S. F. Chyet Antipsalm #2 32
S. F. Chyet Salvation's Cup Is Empty, Its Lamp Burns Low 33
S. F. Chyet Deuteronomy 34; Baba Batra 17a 34
S. F. Chyet Joseph and the Lady 35
Acknowledgements 38
Biographical Notes 39

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