Richard J. Fein's books include Yiddish Genesis (personal essays), With Everything We've Got (a personal anthology of Yiddish poetry), and Not a Separate Surge: New and Selected Poems. His translations of the poetry of Avrom Sutzkever, The Full Pomegranate, will appear next year.
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Richard J. Fein
Not a translation! An original English-language Yiddish poem.
Apr 18, 2018
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Siberia
Abraham Sutzkever
Translation by Richard J. Fein
Sutzkever’s cycle of poems about his childhood years spent in Siberia: “In the light-dark snowed-under / village of my childhood in Siberia / blossoms bloom from shadows’ eyes— / countless quicksilver blossoms…”
Sep 08, 2015