Jessica Steinberg writes about Owen Lewis and the author’s new book of poems A Prayer of Six Wings.
Poet Owen Lewis, a Columbia University professor of psychiatry, knew that when dealing with trauma, one has to face what happened to move past it.
As he grappled with the traumas of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack and the subsequent anti-Israel acts taking place around the Columbia University campus and his Manhattan neighborhood, Lewis’s best defense was writing his latest poetry book, “A Prayer for Six Wings” (Dos Madres Press).
“I felt like this book just barreled through me,” said Lewis while visiting Tel Aviv, where his youngest daughter and her family live.
The book begins with “My Partisan Grief, SuperNova,” Lewis’s elegy to the young partygoers slaughtered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova desert rave.
