Research Catalog

Title

The healing of a broken world (tikkum olam) : poems / David Jaffin.

Author

Jaffin, David, 1937-

Publication

• Bristol : Shearsman Books, 2017.
• Berkeley, CA : Distributed for Shearsman Books in the U.S.A. by Small Press Distribution

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Details

Description

355 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"""David Jaffin is the world's most prolific poet? On Light Sources and Landing Rights: "Decidedly prolific bite-seized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophical."--The Chicago Review""" """I was moved, deeply moved by David Jaffin's collections of verse, by their sensitivity, their loveliness, their honesty."--Chaim Potok"" ""David Jaffin's work is consistently refreshing and innovating, his is a most welcome contemporary poetic voice. And his keen, sensitive observations make for precise, sensuous and elegant poetry. It is thus not surprising that he is also a connoisseur of Franz Joseph Haydn's chamber music. I warmly recommend David Jaffin's books."--Wolfgang Binder, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany"" ""Everything about these books underlines the classical nature of his art ... Jaffin's work, it seems to me, represents the area from which any poetic revival will have to start ... Jaffin's language is highly abstracted, sharp and original. This is not easy poetry: it is the product of American energy and Judaic sensibility, it is intelligent and demanding."--The late Michael Butler, University of Birmingham, England"" ""Dream Flow is a substantial collection of David Jaffin's poetry. At 311 pages, it's an inexhaustible well in which one can gaze and dip at one's leisure, bringing reflective waters to the lips. To say these poems reveal the extent of the intricate word-play and the shimmer of meanings. And the more one sees and says the more the subtle gifts keep coming."--Jassie Glass, Mekai University, Tokyo, Japan"" ""On Dream Flow David Jaffin is a prolific American poet whose work uses the minimum possible means of expression in order to reach for essentials in his subject matter ... The limpid texture of his work resists quotation or excerption; his deceptively simple surfaces use the tensions inherent in the vocabulary to open up new horizons. Delicate creations, his poems tend to be wonderfully light lyrics."--www.bogpriser.dk, Denmark""

Alternative Title

Tikkum olam

Subjects

• Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century
• 2000-2099

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "To the memory of Viktor E. Frankl."

Bibliography (note)

• "Poetry books by David Jaffin" (pages 351-355).

Call Number

JFD 18-1790

ISBN

• 9781848614055
• 1848614055

OCLC

1017489493

Author

Jaffin, David, 1937- author.

Title

The healing of a broken world (tikkum olam) : poems / David Jaffin.

Publisher

Bristol : Shearsman Books, 2017.

Distributor

Berkeley, CA : Distributed for Shearsman Books in the U.S.A. by Small Press Distribution

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

"Poetry books by David Jaffin" (pages 351-355).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFD 18-1790