Drunk From The Bitter Truth
Subtitle: The Poems Of Anna Margolin (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)
Contributors: Shirley Kumove (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 10, 2005
Language: eng; yid
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780791465790
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; General; American - General; Poetry
Description: "Born Rosa Lebensboym in Belarus, Anna Margolin (1887-1952) settled permanently in America in 1913. A brilliant yet largely forgotten poet, her reputation rests on her volume of poetry published in Yiddish in 1929 in New York City. Although written in the 1920s, Margolin's poetry is remarkably fresh and contemporary, dealing with themes of anxiety, loneliness, sexual tensions, and the search for intellectual and spiritual identity, all of which were clearly reflected in her own life choices. Here, the poems appear both in the original Yiddish and in English translation."

"Shirley Kumove's critical-biographical introduction highlights Margolin's tempestuous and unconventional life. An exceptionally beautiful and gifted woman, Margolin adopted a bohemian and an eccentric lifestyle, and threw herself into both intellectual pursuits and romantic attachments beyond her two marriages."--Jacket.