SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol XV/II (Dec 1996)

The Poetry of Myra Sklarew

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Editorial Note 3
POETRY OF MYRA SKLAREW Reflections 4
On Muranowska Street 6
April 1943: Borszczow 7
Piyyut for the Day of Atonement 8
The Messiah Reconsidered 9
The Cry 12
Sacrifice 13
If the Dead Return to Us 14
Decision 16
A Worthy Cause 17
In the Event of a National Disaster 18
Twenty-Four Hours 19
Horseradish 20
The Way the World Is 22
Exchange 23
Poem of the Mother 25
POETRY & TRANSLATIONS OF S.F. CHYET S. F. Chyet Clouds Over Boston 26
S. F. Chyet Self-Portrait 28
Mordecai Temkin (trans. S. F. Chyet) I Give Thanks to You, O God 29
Amir Gilboa z"l (trans. S. F. Chyet) Poem 30
M. Vinkler (trans. S. F. Chyet) Sabbath Eve 31
Uri Zvi Greenberg (trans. S. F. Chyet) The Master of the Broken Heart 33
Maurya Simon Adam and the Persimmon Tree 34
Maurya Simon The Rapture 35
Biographical Notes 36

A pdf of the table of contents from the original issue is available here.