Includes the work Lider and a supplement of poems printed in daily newspapers after Lider was published. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and indexes
Roots -- - Once I was a youth -- - Mother Earth, well-worn, sun-washed -- - Portrait -- - Years -- - In the streets -- - My ancestors speak -- - A city by the sea -- - My home -- - I your calm and I your sword -- - "We went through the days" -- - With half-closed eyes -- - Slowly and brightly -- - "I have wandered so much" -- - You -- - "Drowse on, my beloved" -- - Violins -- - In copper and in gold -- - "All mute things speak today" -- - "With anxious hands" -- - Full of night and weeping -- - "Hearing your step and alarmed" -- - "All this is already long gone" -- - "Perhaps this was my happiness" -- - From a letter -- - "I walk in the shadow" -- - Poem -- - Kissed my hand -- - "No, there's nothing to say" -- - "Primeval murderess night."
"Born Rosa Lebensboym in Belarus, Anna Margolin (1887-1952) settled permanently in America in 1913. A brilliant yet largely forgotten poet, her reputation rests on her volume of poetry published in Yiddish in 1929 in New York City. Although written in the 1920s, Margolin's poetry is remarkably fresh and contemporary, dealing with themes of anxiety, loneliness, sexual tensions, and the search for intellectual and spiritual identity, all of which were clearly reflected in her own life choices. Here, the poems appear both in the original Yiddish and in English translation."
"Shirley Kumove's critical-biographical introduction highlights Margolin's tempestuous and unconventional life. An exceptionally beautiful and gifted woman, Margolin adopted a bohemian and an eccentric lifestyle, and threw herself into both intellectual pursuits and romantic attachments beyond her two marriages."--Jacket
