{"product_id":"requiem-anna-faktorovich-9781681146317","title":"Requiem: For the Innocents: And Other Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"Bobrick's work has largeness and meaning-mythological meaning-without which we cannot live.\" -P.L. Travers, author of \u003c\/i\u003eMary Poppins \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A supremely active intelligence and wit that have left few human experiences closed to his keen observation, judicious comment, or fair assessment... His work is masterly.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -Composer George Rochberg, Annenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This book is a reminder of how much poetry can still do when guided by a keen ear and a disciplined imagination. A late subway ride becomes a meditation on anonymity and private longing. Holding a negative up to the light becomes a way of examining memory, love, and the divided self-what is seen, reversed, endures. There is wit and compression in these poems, along with others attentive to conscience, mystery and inward reckoning. The title piece is an ominous poem of great power, reminiscent of 'The Second Coming' by W.B. Yeats.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -Martin Elster, Co-winner: Thomas Gray International Poetry Competition, 2014; Winner: Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, 2022 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough esteemed as an historian, the author of this small, well-wrought collection is also a lyric poet of distinction. Such a combination is rare, and it may be said that these poems claim a singular place for him in contemporary verse. Though the style is formal, and generally links personal observation and experience to larger themes, the author is not a \"New Formalist\" exactly, but rather, as the late, great P.L. Travers remarked, a writer whose voice has \"largeness and meaning-mythological meaning\" in his exploration of archetypal ideas. For, as the poems illuminate, it is those paradigmatic moments in our own experience-known to us from parable and myth-that heighten and define our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenson Bobrick\u003c\/b\u003e earned his doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. His many books have been featured on the front page of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, widely praised in both academic and popular journals, and published in translation in sixteen lands. In 2002, he received the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two distinguished poets, Galway Kinnell and Robert Pinsky, served on the Award Committee that year. Its other members were: Horton Foote, Hortense Calisher, Ann Beattie, and Russell Banks. Recently, his poems, crafted over many years, have been accepted by numerous publications both here and abroad\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Faktorovich,Benson Bobrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681146312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681146317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anaphora Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d","brand":"Anna Faktorovich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440688673023,"sku":"9781681146317","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_688e7845-740b-4ff9-b3fc-36f6833a2dae.jpg?v=1777184146","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/requiem-anna-faktorovich-9781681146317","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}