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Night of Beginnings Night of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original watercolor drawings by the author. “How lovely to have a haggadah that makes central the biblical narrative that hovers over—but is absent from—the traditional haggadah. Those familiar with Marcia Falk’s transformational work on Jewish blessings will be delighted by her new blessings for all parts of the seder, while those not yet acquainted with her blessings will find them a revelation. This is a beautiful haggadah.” “In Night of Beginnings Marcia Falk continues the brilliant, groundbreaking work she began in her Book of Blessings. Her poetic voice seamlessly combines a profoundly feminist orientation with deep reading of Jewish tradition, and her sometimes daring kavanot (directions of the heart) encourage fresh conversation to renew the seder experience for contemporary participants.” Read more about Night of Beginnings |
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Inner East From the author of the celebrated The Book of Blessings and The Days Between, a collection of poems and blessings accompanied by her original artwork. "Marcia Falk's poems have the lucidity of etchings and the intensity of genstones... It's always a thrill when (as rarely happens) the scholar's mind and the poet's soul come together." "Inner East is a symbiosis of word and image in which neitehr is subservient to the other. Falk's beautiful visual images are poems in paint that do not merely illustrate her written words but illuminate them." Read more about Inner East |
The Days Between "Falk... remains an outstanding lyrical interpreter of Jewish liturgy. These translations and interpretations for the High Holy Day season show deep empathy for the human condition, lofty aspirations for what that condition can accomplish, and intense regard for Jewish tradition—not just reiterated, but revised and reassembled for today." Read more about The Days Between Find out how you can buy the book |
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The Book of Blessings "Marcia Falk's work on Hebrew blessings is as beautiful as it is innovative; and it is innovative in the sweetest, most nourishing sense, saturated in love for the language itself (its overtones and melodies as well as its deep structures), its history, its people. Even those who do not hear the traditional liturgies as exclusionary will respond to the meticulously flowing poet's passion of Marcia Falk's wholly original contribution." Read more about The Book of Blessings Find out how you can buy the book |
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The Song of Songs "More than a quarter of a century since it first appeared in print, Marcia Falk's translation of the Song of Songs remains unsurpassed for power, elegance, and music. Marcia Falk is a poet's poet, and this is a real poet's translation." Read more about The Song of Songs Find out how you can buy the book |
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The Spectacular Difference "Zelda's poems as given to us in Marcia Falk's fine translations are wondrous, magical." "This is an exemplary translation of one of the most wonderful voices in modern Hebrew poetry." This essay from Mosaic examines the poet Zelda, using the translations from The Spectacular Difference. Find out how you can buy the book |
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With Teeth in the Earth "The translations are poems in their own right, full of energy, wit, and surprise. There is no other Yiddish literary translation quite like this—nor is there likely to be again." Read more about With Teeth in the Earth Find out how you can buy the book |
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My Son Likes Weather Read some poems from My Son Likes Weather Find out how you can buy the book |
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It Is July in Virginia "Extraordinary . . . [H]er poems seem like glimpses taken out of the time-stream and allowed to shimmer in place." Read more about It Is July in Virginia Find out how you can buy the book |
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This Year in Jerusalem "These poems have the lucidity of etchings and the intensity of gemstones." |
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