Anna Margolin ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Shirley Kumove
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2005
xxxviii, 288 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
SUNY series, women writers in translation
Includes the work Lider and a supplement of poems printed in daily newspapers after Lider was published
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and indexes
"Born Rosa Lebensboym in Belarus, Anna Margolin (1887-1952) settled permanently in America in 1913. A brilliant yet largely forgotten poet, her reputation rests on her volume of poetry published in Yiddish in 1929 in New York City. Although written in the 1920s, Margolin's poetry is remarkably fresh and contemporary, dealing with themes of anxiety, loneliness, sexual tensions, and the search for intellectual and spiritual identity, all of which were clearly reflected in her own life choices. Here, the poems appear both in the original Yiddish and in English translation."
"Shirley Kumove's critical-biographical introduction highlights Margolin's tempestuous and unconventional life. An exceptionally beautiful and gifted woman, Margolin adopted a bohemian and an eccentric lifestyle, and threw herself into both intellectual pursuits and romantic attachments beyond her two marriages."--Jacket