Author : Pinny Bulman
Publisher : Ben Yehuda Press
ISBN 13 : 1963475119
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (634 download)
Book Synopsis Old Shul by : Pinny Bulman
Download or read book Old Shul written by Pinny Bulman and published by Ben Yehuda Press. This book was released on 2024-01-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he swam way out past the shadows cast / by the steel towers of the indifferent gray bridge / shielding the traffic flowing rhythmically back and / forth, far above the little dead lighthouse that stopped working long / ago when there was nothing left down there / that anyone still wanted to see. Pinny Bulman's poems chronicle his coming of age as a young religious Jewish man against the backdrop of the Dominican and Puerto Rican culture in Washington Heights - two worlds that co-exist but rarely overlap. As he moves beyond the past while holding on to it, Bulman creates the presence of people, prayers, and places long gone, in the same way "time could turn loss into patina." Bulman's precise language allows him to conjure up poignant moments without running the risk of becoming overtly sentimental: but in the end when things melt / what we're left with are these carved out spaces / each with its own beauty of absence.