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Old Seventy Creek Press Poetry Series
Bernard Horn’s Our Daily Words is the winner of
The 2009 Old Seventy Creek Press Poetry Prize
Bernard Horn’s poems and translations (of Yehuda Amichai’s poetry) have appeared in The New Yorker, The Manhattan Review, The Mississippi Review, Moment Magazine, Outer Bridge, Dark Horse, Red Crow, and Mail. He is the author of Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua, the only book in English about Israel’s pre-eminent novelist, and his articles on the Bible have appeared in Shofar and Essays in Literature. He was awarded a Fulbright and five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Connecticut, he is a professor of English at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. He has three married daughters and lives in Framingham with his wife, artist Linda Klein.
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Prepublication praise for poems Robert Pinsky has called, “ humane, affectionate and live-minded”:
“To sample the virtues of this book—this life, and this extraordinary mind—the reader might begin with “To Comfort the Heart's Core Against Its Small Disasters,” in which Horn orchestrates themes in the emotions and ethics of family life that would take another writer a whole novel to explore. No other poet I know of could have written such a poem: so tenderly and brilliantly and sensitively ethical, so self-aware, so aware of the deep cross-currents in the lives of others, so passionately articulate and so organically musical. And yet, in finding a way to intimate ‘the heart's indescribable fugue,’ Horn again and again lifts a lifetime of ‘daily’ experience to a level of such spiritual and intellectual intensity that an entire lifetime, and, indeed, the suffering and exalted life of all us, seems at last expressed.”
Alan Feldman, author of A Sail to Great Island, winner of 2004 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.
“Bernard Horn’s poetry holds the beating heart of everyday’s apparently random trivialities. In easily accessible and beautiful language, he puts side-by-side surprising things that aren’t supposed to go together—except, of course, in real life. Indeed, you rest amid these gardens and, in an afternoon, grow old in wisdom.”
Lawrence Kushner, author of the novel Kabbalah: A Love Story, Invisible Lines of Connection, and Honey from the Rock
“These poems are images of a life at once familiar and provocative. I recommend them.”
David Mamet
“In remarkable poems like ‘Letter from Israel’ and ‘Art, Vienna,’ Horn gracefully and honestly navigates the impossible border between a richly textured personal life and the intrusive cruelty of history.”
A. B. Yehoshua
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