num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: We Jews and Blacks
titlecomplete: We Jews and Blacks
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Indiana University Press