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A prose poem from Abraham Sutzkever’s 1975 volume Green Aquarium. “A man with a heavy bag on his back approaches a dark city in a rainstorm...”

How can we read Yiddish poetry across time to find a new common language? How can we create a space for the imagined dialogues of Kadia Molodowsky and Adrienne Rich with their foremothers, an alternative narrative of blood and text?

Zohar Weiman-Kelman is an incoming fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania and an associate scholar at the Penn Humanities Forum on Sex.