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 Apples of the Earth by Dina Elenbogen
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In Apples of the Earth, Dina Elenbogen
is a poet who lives in several worlds at once.
The
weather in her poems is the weather all over the world, flood and
drought at once.
Living
in Chicago she is also in Jerusalem, living in her home she is also far
away in Africa,
and
the dialogue she keeps up within herself and outside herself extends
her feeling from
immediacy
to longing. She is a poet who can write about love without
embarrassment
because
for her “love survived in the middle of everything.” With these
poems, love survives
for
us too. Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Lowercase
Jew (Poems) and The Jew in the Lotus
Apples of the Earth
is a marvelous first collection. In elegant, luminous language,
Elenbogen
evokes the places and people she loves and grieves over.
Her leaps of imagination are startling:
in one deft instant, she can connect commonplace objects to
motions of the spirit and the heart.
Her tone is everywhere sure and clear, the voice of a born
poet.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of The Writing on the Wall and Disturbances in the Field
Dina Elenbogen
Dina
Elenbogen's poetry and prose have
appeared in numerous
literary magazines and anthologies. She has received fellowships and
awards in
poetry and creative nonfiction from the Illinois Arts Council and she
is the recipient of the Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize.
She has
completed a book-length memoir Drawn from
Water: A Question of Home.
Elenbogen has an MFA
in poetry from
the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and teaches in the University of Chicago
Writers’
Studio. She lives in Evanston,
Illinois with her husband Steve Siegel and their children Sarina and
Ilan.
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