{"product_id":"so-many-things-are-yours-9781938890918","title":"So Many Things Are Yours","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe poet and Talmud scholar examines Jewish texts, sexuality, and human vulnerability in poems that brim with wonder, sadness, sensuality, and humor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKosman's second volume in English explores Jewish texts --Bible, Talmud, midrash -- alongside bodies, physical desires, military experiences, even a refrigerator. Demons and fantasy enter these poems; so do politics, so does God. These are not religious poems in a conventionally liturgical, \"inspirational\" sense; yet they point to the big questions that religion asks: about love, hate, desire, violence, transgression, disappointment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoet and scholar Admiel Kosman is the author of nine books of Hebrew poetry, six academic books on Talmud and Midrash, and two bilingual Hebrew-English collections, \u003ci\u003eSo Many Things Are Yours\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming, Zephyr Press, 2022) and \u003ci\u003eApproaching You in English\u003c\/i\u003e (Zephyr, 2011), both translated by Lisa Katz. Born in Haifa, Israel, he has lived in Berlin since 2003. He is Professor of Jewish Studies at Potsdam University, and academic director of the Abraham Geiger College, the first Reform rabbinical seminary to open in Continental Europe since the Holocaust. Translator and poet Lisa Katz has published two collections of her own poems and translated several volumes of Hebrew poetry. \u003ci\u003eLate Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, by Tuvia Ruebner, which she co-translated with Shahar Bram, was a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She also translated \u003ci\u003eThe Absolute Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, a chapbook by Miri Ben Simhon (Toad Press, 2020); \u003ci\u003eApproaching You in English\u003c\/i\u003e, co-translated with Shlomit Naim-Naor (Zephyr, 2011); and \u003ci\u003eLook There\u003c\/i\u003e, by Agi Mishol (Graywolf, 2006). She lives in Jerusalem.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382984478994,"sku":"9781938890918","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d81439a5-a905-41bb-9c2d-c5dfcdb123ad.jpg?v=1728775122","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/so-many-things-are-yours-9781938890918","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}