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Charles Reznikoff

Born in 1894, in Brooklyn, New York, Charles Reznikoff is the author of several collections of poetry and was a principal proponent of Objectivism...
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Notes on the Spring Holidays, III, [Hanukkah]
by 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.
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From The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff. Copyright © 1976 by Charles Reznikoff. Used by permission of Black Sparrow Press, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc.

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