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ISBN-10: 193767973X
ISBN-13: 9781937679736
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
Publish Date: 11/07/2017
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.50" W, 0.30" H

Closet Sonnets: The Life of G. S. Crown (1950-2021)

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“Azriel writes with the kind of authority rarely found among modern poets, with strong echoes of Hayim Nachman Bialik, whose biblical poems have themselves become sacred texts.” –Howard Schwartz, author of Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism

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In Closet Sonnets, Yakov Azriel turns life as a closeted gay male into an aesthetic form as rigorous as that of the sonnets that make up this: fictional autobiography: the speaker's self-limitation becomes a means of imaginative and rhetorical intensification. Through a shifting weave of images and metaphors–mermen, ancient Greeks, Martians, dream-lovers and real men glimpsed through the bars of heterosexual marriage–Azriel's character maps every inch of his psychic closet, and, like Dylan Thomas at the end of 'Fem Hill, ' 'sighs in his chains like the sea.'–Joy Ladin, author of Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders
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ISBN-10: 193767973X
ISBN-13: 9781937679736
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
Publish Date: 11/07/2017
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.50" W, 0.30" H
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