SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

Vol XXXVII/II & XXXVIII/I (2019-2020)

Irving Layton: The Jewish Poems (Guest Editor: Seymour Mayne)

Table of contents:

Author Title Page
Seymour Mayne Preface by Seymour Mayne, Guest Editor 5
The Black Huntsmen 9
Gothic Landscape 10
On Seeing the Statuettes of Ezekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame 11
Jewish Main Street 12
Mrs. Fornheim, Refugee 13
Death of Moishe Lazarovitch 14
Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959 15
Santa Simplicitas 16
Requiem for A. M. Klein 17
Boris Pasternak 19
Osip Mandelstam 20
For Nadezhda Mandelstam 22
The Improved Binoculars 23
On Being Bitten by a Dog 24
Family Portrait 25
Synagogue in West Palm Beach 26
Twentieth Century Gothic 27
For My Brother Jesus 28
The Sinner 30
The Luminous Bagel 31
The Golden Age of Spanish Painting 32
Ibn Gabriol 32
Cain 33
At the Belsen Memorial 35
For Hans, Maybe Klaus or Tadeusz 37
No Wild Dog 39
The Predator 40
For My Neighbours in Hell 41
The Final Solution 42
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 44
Midsummer's Dream in the Vienna Stadpark 46
For Anne Frank 47
Das Wahre Ich 48
For 7515-03296 49
To the Victims of the Holocaust 50
Parque de Montjuich 51
Rhine Boat Trip 53
Post-Crematoria 53
You Never Can Tell 54
The Haemorrhage 54
Adam 55
La Minerve 57
Herzl 58
Next Year, Jerusalem 59
Jew 59
Israelis 60
For My Sons, Max and David 61
Receipe for a Long and Happy Life 62
After Auschwitz 63
Nightmare in the Annex 64
Senile, My Sister Sings 65
O Jerusalem 67
Warrior Poet 68
A Wild Peculiar Joy 69
Biography, Guest Editor 70
Acknowledgments 71

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