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...Chana Bloch Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 POETRY BLOOD HONEY A p p r e h e n d e d a n d h e ld w ith o u t tria l, * o u r fr ie n d w a s s e n t e n c e d : A s h a d o w is e a t i n g t h e s u n...

...Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi Blood Honey , by Bloch Chana , Autumn House Press , 2009 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 Culture BOOKS I FILM | MUSIC [BOOKS] I met Chana Faerstein in Jerusalem...

... at Verso, 2009 large,” we know that “if he’s guilty / we must It takes sixty years for Rothko be guilty.” These lines come from “Blood to make his way to the rim. Review by T zoiM arx Honey,” which gives the book its title. The He goes there only after dark. poem (see previous page) is dedicated...

... WWW.TIKKUN.ORG MAY/JUNE 2008 to a land flowing with milk she couldn’t have brought along and so much honey the perfectly positioned tent-flap, that an iridescent flock of emerald bee...

...), the speaker’s mother claims that “God will punish” her if she writes on Shabbos. The speaker responds: “When I wrote, I pulled down the shade.” A later poem, “The Dark of Day,” from Blood Honey (2009), is more explicit: The rabbis taught us the mathematics of dividing this from that. They certified...

... with honey tears like a lion’s. Inside we tell the story, drink the cups of wine and watch the ocean rise above our heads and part to let us thru, startled deep sea creatures flickering away from our noses. The child asking the four questions lifts a finger towards a transparent fin till his mother frowns...

.... We call them spare ribs instead of pigs. We call them leather instead of cows. Honey garlic wings instead of chickens. Filets instead of fish. We wear these animals; we ingest them many times a day; we use products and medicines that are tested on them; and yet they remain, as individuals, absent...

... the so was dowager, and who / beloved, the of Jerusalem letters divided beautiful the of photos the burning “They’re now sixty Israel’s lips.”my to honey than “sweeter as savor and earth stones” your your cherish and “kiss dust,” to your with my tears mix to only...

..., pause, / your silences the wordless rage of pain.” In “Danger,” they go out together, and she describes him: taking the high risk of this morning, one hand on your cane, the other open to catch honey-yellow blossoms falling just as our shadows fall on this narrow   path. Even on placid Long...

... of the road with a playful shadow dance. A breeze now and then would lift some branches, exposing the glistening multi-colored undersides of a undersides with road playful the dance. A lift exposing multi-colored shadow would glistening the breeze some now then branches, and dirt honey...

... of a naughty schoolboy, but it can also take on more seriously subversive implications. Consider the poem “I Suckle Your Oral Law.” Are lines such as “The sweet teaching / on your lips, religious honey, / I suckle, sentence by sentence, slowly, / slowly” meant to be playful, or mocking? Is Kosman just...

... Museum sider that there is prerequisite work to do with Jews to un-numb when it first opened in Washington, D.C. Before gettingto the m u­ from the Holocaust and its continuing effects on all of our daily seum, my dad sat me down and said, “Honey, we just didn’t know lives. As we reach beyond...

... outside male-dictated interpretations. Earlier this year, Rupi Kaur, a female Sikh Canadian writer who published her poems in a collection titled milk and honey , shared a photograph of a fully clothed woman lying in bed with a period stain. Instagram removed the photograph twice, stating it went...

... on the ground appeared on the desert floor.… It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. “Like frost … like coriander seed … like wafers.” Is the text playing with us? The ambiguity is sufficient to spark continuing debate, from the rabbis of antiquity to the scholars of today...

... lilt of Cædmon’s Hymn (modernized by Kimberly John-son), written in the seventh century, Now must we praise heaven-kingdom’s guardian, the measurer’s might and his mind-thoughts, the work of the Gloryfather, how he of each wonder, Eternal Lord, established a beginning. gives way to the honeyed...

....” Yet, there are “breastaurants” like Hooters or Twin Peaks, Burger Girl, and the Honey Shack that invite men to experience a fantasy of consumption. The message: it’s okay to create a restaurant around the objectification of women and talk about them in double entendres. Twin Peaks announces, “Better...

... historically prohibited meat, eggs, and even honey, but not milk. Traditionally, however, only a cow’s or goat’s excess milk was to be taken, ensuring that their offspring had enough to eat. Recognizing that this is by and large not the way milk is produced in contemporary times, many Jains today are seeking...

... Johnson Reagan, of acapella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, J.M. Latta spoke of an important consideration in creating spaces for an education that (re)members: “History is sacred because it is the only chance that you have of knowing who you are outside of what’s been rained down upon you from a hostile...

... to gefilte fish,” for instance, he honors his grandfather, who     would eat dozens at a time out of jars like cookies. gelatinous bone jelly dripping from his fingers like honey. He also contextualizes “this loaf of fish on a glass plate” as     the perfect food for a wandering people, weaving...

... heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey (Iliad 18.107-110, trans. R. Lattimore). Vengefulness, resentment, and moral hatred cloud judgm ent but seem sweet to the one they possess, transforming a peaceful character into a connoisseur...