Split Daughter of Eve

<p>In poems at turns lyrical and narrative ironic and yearning Split Daughter of Eve describes a lifelong attempt to arrive at a sense of soul self and worldly identity from an initial dark mess of imposed meanings. This particular journey from childhood is informed by a split and warring religious inheritance (Jewish/Catholic) that intersects with incestuous shadings at home. What is sacred becomes hopelessly confused with the profane. Values urgently needed to live appear to have been lost before they could be understood much less claimed. Questions of who what or why to believe and what to stand for are explored against a backdrop of places that include California New York Nevada and Minnesota as well as Poland Ukraine Israel Italy Spain and Turkey while touching on history that includes pogroms McCarthyism Communists and Catholics ancient mystics and martyrs and the war in Gaza. The multiplicity of contradictions may well be unresolvable. Yet as the poems demonstrate sending in one's own angel of imagination to wrestle with them can offer a little aid.</p><p></p><p></p>