Longing: Poems of a Life by Merle Feld
April 19th at 6pm on Zoom
The program is free, but please purchase a copy of the book. If you would like to make a donation to help us cover the costs of the program, you can do so here.
Order Merle’s new book, Longing: Poems of a Life from Amazon, CCAR Press or Indiebound
What do we long for as we carry the traumas of our past and look into the future with guarded hope? In Longing: Poems of a Life, acclaimed poet Merle Feld tells her intensely personal story while naming profound human experience. Feld opens forbidden doors and long-shuttered windows, peering through the lattices of memory at moments of anguish, breaking, blessing, surviving. We accompany her through early family violence, isolation, the discovery of community and love; we witness her climb from the loss of possibility to the assertion of self-worth and purpose. Threading through the years are conversations with a mother long gone—”a slip of a girl”—whose misplaced loyalty and endless capacity for loving are both cautionary tale and guidepost. Deeply Jewish yet universal, these gripping poems will stay with you.
