We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems

By Willis Barnstone

Book Overview

A central theme of this memoir by poet and translator Willis Barnstone is that of labels--names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, We Jews and Blacks wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. It is a dramatic, whimsical, and literary work that also contains a number of Barnstone's poems, which offer a second view of an event, a crystallization of his thinking, both sorrowful and joyful. The book includes a dialogue with Yusef Komunyakaa and a small selection of his poems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253219213
• ISBN13: 9780253219213
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.7" x 5.9"