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The Sky Will Overtake You: Poems

The Sky Will Overtake You: Poems - Paperback

by Marcia Falk
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marcia FalkPublish date:2025-05-19Pages:102
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scarlet Tanager BooksISBN-13:9781734531381ISBN-10:173453138XUPC:9781734531381Book Category:Poetry, NatureSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SCMXZEZ14Y

The poems in The Sky Will Overtake You abound in a rare, infectious, and hard-won ecstasy, the consequence-at least in part-of exquisite attention to whatever they approach. They celebrate "the days laid out like jewels / on a merchant's table" even as they acknowledge grief and loss and the knowledge that "[There is] no keeping anything." These poems make ephemerality palpable, establishing it as an essential feature of what we treasure. "What Do You Have?" asks a poem's title. Its final lines respond, "Only this bit of time, / like clouds unforming- / even as you point to it, // gone."

-JACQUELINE OSHEROW, author of Divine Ratios

Language:EnglishPublisher:Scarlet Tanager BooksISBN-13:9781734531381ISBN-10:173453138XUPC:9781734531381Book Category:Poetry, NatureSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SCMXZEZ14Y
Falk, Marcia: - Marcia Falk is widely known in the progressive Jewish world for her poetic re-creations of Hebrew and English prayer. Her translation of the biblical Song of Songs is considered a modern classic. In addition to her books of poetry, she has published book-length translations of modern Hebrew and Yiddish women poets. A lifelong artist, Marcia began art classes as a child at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and later studied painting at the Art Students League, where she is a Life Member. Her pastel drawing appears on the cover of The Sky Will Overtake You. More of her art, as well as excerpts from her books, can be viewed at marciafalk.com. Marcia grew up in metropolitan New York and now lives in northern California with her spouse, poet Steve Rood. Their son, Abraham Gilead Falk-Rood, teaches English and music to immigrant teenagers in a public high school.
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