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Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce the publication of my third book of poems, Uncle Feygele. More information about the book is available via the links below. Thank you in advance for your support of my work. Sincerely, Aaron Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron. Uncle Feygele. Austin, Tex.: Plain View Press, 2011. 119 p. ISBN: 9781935514862. $14.95 Uncle Feygele* is a portrait of a poet poised between the ultra-Orthodox Jewish milieu in which he was raised and his queer daily life. Rather than highlighting displacement, the poems in this collection meditate on the challenges in sustaining familial and romantic connection and the hope for social justice. Despite his failure to fulfill the biblical injunction "to be fruitful and multiply," the title protagonist grapples with questions of community, family, history, identity, and language. His quest is peopled by characters, "real" and imagined, historical and contemporary, who provide fellowship and inspiration. By probing the interior life of an uncoupled hero, the book shifts the persona of the "unmarried relative" from the periphery to the very center of investigation. Taken together, Uncle Feygele offers a new portrayal of a ubiquitous but often obscure literary figure and an alternative paradigm of Jewish engagement. Six poems also have a Yiddish version. http://www.yataub.net http://www.plainviewpress.net/gallery2/pages/Uncle-Feygele.html *"Feygele" (pronounced "fey" as in "Tina Fey," "ge" as in "get," and "le" as in "let"), derived from the Yiddish word "foygl," from the German word Vogel (bird), and the Yiddish diminuitive marker "--le," is a term meaning a man who is or who is thought to be gay. Although widely used in contemporary parlance, this meaning of the word is not given in Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionarywhere "feygele" is defined as "checkmark." Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
