Notes on the Spring Holidays, III, [Hanukkah]

Charles Reznikoff

III

Hanukkah

In a world where each man must be of use

and each thing useful, the rebellious Jews

light not one light but eight—

not to see by but to look at.

Beggar Woman by Charles Reznikoff
When I was four years old my mother led me to the park

Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays by Charles Reznikoff
The solid houses in the mist

Romance by Charles Reznikoff
The troopers are riding, are riding by

Te Deum by Charles Reznikoff
Not because of victories

The Idiot by Charles Reznikoff
With green stagnant eyes

		Poems About Chanukah
		Light breaks where no sun shines by Dylan Thomas
		Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays by Charles Reznikoff
		The Coming of Light by Mark Strand
		The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus
		Poems about Jewish Experience
		Kaddish, Part I by Allen Ginsberg
		A Little History by David Lehman
		Afterlife by Joan Larkin
		An Old Cracked Tune by Stanley Kunitz
		Fugue of Death by Paul Celan
		Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs? by Rachel Zucker
		In a Country by Larry Levis
		In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport by Emma Lazarus
		In the Park by Maxine Kumin
		Jew by Michael Blumenthal
		Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye by Gerald Stern
		The Poem as Mask by Muriel Rukeyser