Tell It To the Rabbis and Other Poems 1977-2000

By Stephen Kessler

Poetry. Moving through a great range of moods and modes over twenty-four years of writing, yet unified by an unmistakable voice--lyrical, colloquial, ardent, irreverent--TELL IT TO THE RABBIS is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887393934
• ISBN13: 9780887393938
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Shared Private Thoughts--Transformed to Universal Themes

Reading this book was like crossing a bridge into another person's most private world. Kessler has an uncanny ability to tap into the universal consciousness through dwelling poetically on the everyday image. This is not comfortable stuff. The poet confronts us with our own discontents and petty irritations, for he has a knack for capturing what's uncomfortable and untrue about modern life itself. And love--well, even his love poems strike flint on the granite of our private discontents. May Sarton said, "Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you." I think that describes what Kessler has done here. Don't understand him too quickly.