These poems, written over several decades but never published as a collection, are a kind of autobiography—an account of concerns drawn from my life both inside and outside of my consulting room.
I'm a psychologist and psychoanalyst. My consulting room is a renovated garage, now an airy office and studio, next door to my house in Forest Hills, New York. It locates the adult consciousness that gives rise to my professional work and to these poems. My childhood home in New York’s West Bronx locates the early consciousness and the developing...
These poems, written over several decades but never published as a collection, are a kind of autobiography—an account of concerns drawn from ...
Max White was an odd outsider to late 19th Century American history-with an immigrant's, in particular a Jewish immigrant's, perspective on the economic and social world of his time. As a young man he had some fascinating adventures-among them: in Poland, where he was born and then in London in the 1850s, and in Tampa during the war with the Seminoles, and in Nashville during the American Civil War. He relates these with a story-teller's zest and a sense of humor. He learned his English late; his voice is at once Yiddish in its inflection and high-flown Victorian in its aspiration. He is a...
Max White was an odd outsider to late 19th Century American history-with an immigrant's, in particular a Jewish immigrant's, perspective on the econom...
