{"product_id":"her-birth-and-later-years-new-and-collected-poems-1971-2021-9780819501080","title":"Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollected poems of pivotal Jewish lesbian activist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023)\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For fifty years, Klepfisz has written powerful, searching poems about relatives murdered during the war, recent immigrants, a lost Yiddish writer, a Palestinian boy in Gaza, and various people in her life. In her introduction to Klepfisz's A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, Adrienne Rich wrote: \"[Klepfisz's] sense of phrase, of line, of the shift of tone, is almost flawless.\" \u003ci\u003eHer Birth and Later Years \u003c\/i\u003ewas a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIRENA KLEPFISZ (Brooklyn, NY) taught Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College for 22 years. She is the author of four books of poetry including \u003ci\u003ePeriods of Stress, Keeper of Accounts, Different Enclosures, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of essays \u003ci\u003eDreams of an Insomniac\u003c\/i\u003e. She was co-editor of\u003ci\u003e The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. An advocate of the Yiddish language and active in its renaissance in the United States, she has published poetry and essays have appeared in\u003ci\u003e Jewish Currents, Tablet Magazine, In Geveb, Sinister Wisdom, The Manhattan Review, Conditions, The Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eHer Birth and Later Years\u003c\/i\u003e was a Finalist for the Jewish Book Award and winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50563579511058,"sku":"9780819501080","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_51ebd419-0103-47eb-97c7-3f4bcc81c19a.jpg?v=1731869296","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/her-birth-and-later-years-new-and-collected-poems-1971-2021-9780819501080","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}