Rider: The Rider Quintet, Vol. 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780819512178)

Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1995)

Mark Rudman - poet, essayist, translator, and teacher - has consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessional to a new plane. In a polyphonic narrative that combines verse with lyrical prose and often humorous dialogue, Rudman examines his own coming-of-age through the lens of his relationships with his grandfather, father, step-father, and son. These memories emerge against the background of a family history anchored in the traditions of Judaism and the culture of the diaspora.