Our Portion
New and Selected Poems
Published on 18. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-938769-06-1 (ISBN)
Description
The new and selected collection of Philip Terman's illustrates the poet's deep understanding and compassion for our world. Spanning 20 years of poetry, this collection of poems focuses on themes of nature, literature, family, and Judaism.
Reviews / Votes
"In Our Portion, Philip Terman charts the seasons of a life in the garden-a life rooted in Jewish tradition and animated by love. Expansive, generous, he celebrates and sings the beauty of Creation, the lovers in one another's arms, the birds at their song. Though he is mindful of the griefs of a fallen order, he keeps returning us to what redeems and nourishes, inviting us in poem after poem to marvel with him at "the spontaneous melody of the moment." -Chana Bloch"This is a big-hearted, large-minded book, rich in its religious heritage yet wonderfully ironic, in its particulars, about those same compelling cultural connections. The flow of the writing, too, is thoroughly complete and poignantly alive in its follow-through, as if the poems were engaging the reader in real-life chat-narratives. Philip Terman's Our Portion is a work of profound maturity, practical wisdom, and reconciliation with what is possible." -Stanley Plumly
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-938769-06-1 (9781938769061)
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Person
Philip Terman is the author of four books of poetry and four limited edition chapbooks. He has received the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poetry on the Jewish Experience, the Kenneth Patchen Award, and the Sow's Ear Prize. He is a professor of English at Clarion University, where he directs the Spoken Art Reading Series.