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‘Love and Dread’ on Yom Kippur

September 19, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Rachel Hadas, Rainer Maria Rilke, Yom Kippur, Moses Hadas

Rachel Hadas’s poem locates a fulcrum from which to assess the extent to which our lives will be governed by love or dread.

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September 19, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Rachel Hadas, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Wordsworth, Yom Kippur, New Formalism, Moses Hadas
Rachel Hadas, Rainer Maria Rilke, Yom Kippur, Moses Hadas
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HENRY WEINFIELD AND THE DARK DAYS

December 25, 2020 by DAVID M KATZ in Thomas Hardy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry Weinfield

The poem gave me the chills, as if accusing me of never really having lived, of never having confronted some unstated but essential problem in my life.

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December 25, 2020 /DAVID M KATZ
Thomas Hardy, Henry Weinfield, Rainer Maria Rilke
Thomas Hardy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry Weinfield
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