""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I""; ""Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway""; ""Old Men""; ""Born in the USA""; ""The Marriage Nocturne""; ""Hunger""; ""Elegy for Allen""; ""West Fourth Street""; ""At the Revelation Restaurant""; ""Grandchild""; ""Part II""; ""A Meditation in Seven Days""; ""Kol Nidre""; ""Part III""; ""The Eighth and Thirteenth""; ""Holocaust""; ""Three Women""; ""Who Saves a Life: Poem Beginning with a Line by Fitzgerald / Hemingway""; ""Diaspora""; ""Listening to Public Radio""; ""Poem Sixty Years after Auschwitz""; ""Part IV -- From the volcano sequence""; ""psalm""
""Fire""""judgment""; ""during the bombing of Kosovo""; ""the fast""; ""the shekhinah as exile""; ""the shekhinah as mute""; ""the shekhinah as amnesiac""; ""dark smile""; ""seasonal""; ""psalm""; ""psalm""; ""psalm""; ""Part V""; ""Lamenting the Inevitable""; ""The Bride""; ""Tearing the Poem Up and Eating It""; ""Divrei: The Settlers""; ""What Is Needed after Food""; ""Part VI""; ""The Book of Life""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""
Summary
"(BLike many Jews, in and out of the synagogue, I wrestle with sacred tradition like Jacob wrestling the angel. The poems gathered here were born of this wrestling, which can never be over."--The Preface
