Dear Colleagues:
We want to bring to your attention a remarkable new book of poetry by Catherine
Madsen entitled NORDWAHR
In a world where we incur certain obligations by accident of birth and take on
others out of gratitude, the claims of nature, history and personal history
accumulate over the course of a lifetime into a bewildering conflict of
imperatives. Catherine Madsen's NORDWAHR is an attempt, not to resolve the
conflict, but to look searchingly at one body of claims: Jewish thought and
history, Inuit thought and history, longing for a lost place, love between
wounded people, the lingering admonitions of a Christianity long rejected, the
hardship and beauty of the North and its uncertain future. A poetic tour de
force and a major contribution to Jewish American literature.
Madsen is the author of The Bones Reassemble: Reconstituting Liturgical Speech;
In Medias Res: Liturgy for the Estranged; the novel A Portable Egypt; and the
libretto for Robert Stern’s oratorio Shofar. She has served as a contributing
editor for the inter-religious journal Cross Currents and the Yiddish Book
Center’s magazine Pakn Treger.
I was deeply moved by the intensity of the work and the grappling with the
perplexity of modern life and orbiting many realms.
For information about purchasing the book contact me at:
[ [email protected] ]( mailto:[email protected] )
shalom
ken
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