issue 27 > nonfiction
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Festschrift for Daniel G. Hoffman
in Celebration of His 90th Birthday
In Memoriam
Daniel G. Hoffman
April 3, 1923 - March 30, 2013
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Interview with Burton Raffel
by Miriam N. Kotzin I was driven to write poems from about age fourteen — especially about girls. The output was prolific; the quality was awful — as I began to see that at about age sixteen, when I started at Brooklyn College. By the end of my first year, I found myself on the staff of the college literary magazine. By the end of my second year, I was the editor, and writing (and sometimes publishing) poems, stories and a short play. At the end of the third year, I resigned from the magazine completely. I could see that it was making me take myself more seriously than I deserved.
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Morality and Spirituality in Translation
by Burton Raffel The morality of art is not a subject much better understood than the morality of artists. I have no doubt — as a retired member of the New York Bar — that, during World War Two, Ezra Pound committed treason.
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Book Reviews
Review of Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference
by Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmán Sefi Atta's third novel engages the reader in a reflection of a professional Nigerian woman's struggle with societal expectations both in her homeland and abroad. Deola, the protagonist of Atta's latest novel, A Bit of Difference, is an independent single woman in London who is beyond the long arm of Nigerian patriarchal expectations.
More...Review of Richard J. Fein's Yiddish Genesis
by Paul D. Green Richard J. Fein's Yiddish Genesis: Essays is a series of explorations of literary topics that especially matter to him. In his brief "Preface" (less than a page) he describes "these essays" as "visitations of Jewish literatures long haunting me."
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