Product Description

• Pages: 57
• Language: English
• Available: Yes
• Audio CD: No
• ISBN: 978-1-933675-56-5

Praise

“In the Diaspora, the Book replaces and compensates for the the Land that is lost. But in Bea Opengart’s In the Land, the Land and the Book are one. Opengart’s accounting weaves personal reflection with precise reportage, the awareness of tradition with an openness to the changes, the upheavals, of contemporary Israeli life.

Neither tourist nor native, she is, rather, the lost lover strangely returned, the stranger forever falling in love. Give yourself to her Book as she gives herself to the Land.” – Norman Finkelstein

An Excerpt

THEY SEEK HER WHO HAS NEVER DEPARTED

Hands in her lap, feet
in the rubble, she watches
young men dancing,
old men stammering
love. She doesn’t
turn from them, matching
passion with strength
draped in stones
from the shoulder,
stones at the hem of her dress.

About the Author

Bea Opengart’s poems have appeared in a number of journals, including The American Voice, Folio, The Journal, The Iowa Review, Louisville Review, Many Mountains Moving, The MacGuffin, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Sou’wester, and others. Her chapbook, This Day, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, and her first book, Erotica, won the book competition sponsored by Owl Creek Press. Bea has received grants in support of her work from The Kentucky Arts Council, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Ohio Arts Council. She teaches at the University of Cincinnati.