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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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	FURTHER READING


		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


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		Poems for Chanukah

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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.

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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