Owen Lewis’s A Prayer of Six Wings is given review in THEJ.CA International Jewish News
Owen Lewis, an award-winning Jewish poet, psychiatrist, and Columbia University professor, has long understood that healing begins with facing pain. In his latest collection, A Prayer of Six Wings, Lewis turns his gaze and pen to the shattering events of October 7, 2023, and the year that followed, a period marked by the Hamas massacre, war in Gaza, and a frightening surge of antisemitism worldwide.
The book opens with “My Partisan Grief,” an elegy to the young lives lost at the Nova music festival, and expands outward to encompass the anguish felt by Jews in Israel and the diaspora alike. Lewis’s poems are not confined to one narrative; they move between the streets of Tel Aviv, where his daughter and grandchildren live, and the emotionally charged atmosphere of New York, where he witnessed campus protests and antisemitic slogans firsthand.
