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Chana Bloch's collection of new and selected poetry explores a retrospective view on Jewish texts and traditions, illness, death, gender, memory, and family life.

The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about a great fall, the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. What interests Bloch is the inner life; how we are formed by our losses and our parents' losses, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we finally discover ourselves.

In poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai s last volume is one of meditation and hope, and stands as a testament to one of Israel s greatest poets.
Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open
in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is closed
within us. And when we die, everything is open again.
Open...