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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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Ned Balbo’s Family Narrative

June 02, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell

Ned Balbo’s finest lyrics contain vivid fragments of this overarching epic, which amounts to a lifelong quest for identity amid a tangle of secrets, half-truths, and outright fabrications stemming from his adoption.

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June 02, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism
Ned Balbo, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Hecht, New Criticism, New Formalism, Richard Ellmann, Bruce Springsteen, Joni Mitchell
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