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Night of Beginnings by Marcia Falk

Night of Beginnings
A Passover Haggadah

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.”
—Judith Plaskow, author of Standing Again at Sinai and coauthor, with Carol P. Christ, of Goddess and God in the World

“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.”
—Rabbi David Teutsch, editor of Kol Haneshamah Reconstructionist prayer books

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Inner East by Marcia Falk

Inner East
Illuminated Poems and Blessings

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."
—Adrienne Rich, recipient of the National Book Award for Poetry

"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."
—Mark Podwal, artist, recipient of the Foundation for Jewish Culture Achievement Award

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The Days Between by Marcia Falk

The Days Between
Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season

"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."
—Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Professor of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual, Hebrew Union College

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The Book of Blessings

The Book of Blessings
New Jewish Prayers for Daily Life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival

"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."
—Cynthia Ozick

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The Song of Songs

The Song of Songs
Love Lyrics from the Bible

"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."
—Li-Young Lee, winner of the Academy of American Poets Distinguished Poetry Award

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The Spectacular Difference

The Spectacular Difference
Selected Poems of Zelda
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Marcia Falk

"Zelda's poems as given to us in Marcia Falk's fine translations are wondrous, magical."
—Li-Young Lee, winner of the Academy of American Poets Distinguished Poetry Award

"This is an exemplary translation of one of the most wonderful voices in modern Hebrew poetry."
—Amos Oz

This essay from Mosaic examines the poet Zelda, using the translations from The Spectacular Difference.

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With Teeth in the Earth

With Teeth in the Earth
Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman
Translated, Edited, and Introduced by Marcia Falk

"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."
—David G. Roskies, Chair
Dept. of Jewish Literature
Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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My Son Likes Weather

Read some poems from My Son Likes Weather

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It Is July in Virginia

It Is July in Virginia
A Poem Sequence
with a wood engraving by Barry Moser

"Extraordinary . . . [H]er poems seem like glimpses taken out of the time-stream and allowed to shimmer in place."
—Heather McHugh

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This Year In Jerusalem

This Year in Jerusalem

"These poems have the lucidity of etchings and the intensity of gemstones."
—Adrienne Rich

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© Marcia Lee Falk.