SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol XXXIV/II & XXXV/I (2016-2017)

Dream the Living into Speech: A Selection of Poems and a Homage to Yiddish By Seymour Mayne

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Preface 5
POEMS Seymour Mayne Zalman 7
Seymour Mayne Lamb 10
Seymour Mayne Devotional 13
Seymour Mayne For Melech Ravitch (1893-1976) 15
Melech Ravitch Good Sister, When I Die 17
Melech Ravitch Let Us Learn 20
Seymour Mayne Der Zaydehs Tallis 22
Seymour Mayne Before Passover 24
Seymour Mayne Hide and Seek 26
Seymour Mayne Ring 27
Seymour Mayne Getting Into Line 28
Seymour Mayne Claims 29
Rachel Korn The First Line of a Poem 31
Rachel Korn With Poems Already Begun 32
Rachel Korn By the Lake 33
Rachel Korn From Here to There 34
Seymour Mayne Abraham Sutzkever 35
Abraham Sutzkever A Voice from the Heart 38
Abraham Sutzkever I Am Lying in this Coffin 39
Abraham Sutzkever I Feel Like Saying a Prayer 40
Abraham Sutzkever Carved on a Tree 41
Abraham Sutzkever If All That Remains of Us Is Merely a Cipher 42
Abraham Sutzkever To the Thin Vein in My Head 43
Seymour Mayne Day 44
Seymour Mayne Sukkah Guests 45
Seymour Mayne For the Dentist Who Extracted My Last Wisdom Tooth 47
Seymour Mayne Curses upon the Thief or Thieves Who Stole the Old Blue Couch from my Front Porch during the Early Hours of June 7, 1986 48
Seymour Mayne Window 50
Seymour Mayne Waken 51
Seymour Mayne Guest 52
Seymour Mayne Overheard at the Barber 53
Seymour Mayne Fiddler 54
Seymour Mayne November 55
Seymour Mayne Perfume 56
Seymour Mayne Never a Dull Moment 57
Seymour Mayne Backwards 58
Seymour Mayne The Children of Abel 59
Seymour Mayne Yiddish 60
Biographies 61

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