The Passover Poems

"Write a poem for the Seder," a relative requested. And so award-winning poet Gertrude Rubin did, for nine years. Now, as a tribute to his memory, she has gathered together these poems, & others, which explore the deeper meanings of the holiday, its echoes & reverberations. Martha Friedberg, Co-Founder of the Poetry Center of the Chicago Art Institute, writes: "Inspired by the raw power of love & loss, these gracefully honed poems remind us of our fragile place in the world, & of the need for each generation, each season, to re-live the great myths of the Jewish people." These are poems to enrich the seder experience, orsimply to read for the pleasure they bring