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The Cartographer's Melancholy
Poems
Fate, stillness, travel, will, and the deep bruise of individual history as it becomes political history all shape David Axelrod’s classic book, originally published in 2005. In a language extraordinarily lean and fresh, Axelrod shows...
ISBN: 9780899241609
more detailsThe Open Hand
The poems in The Open Hand journey across the upper Rhine and Alps to contemporary West Jerusalem and far northern Europe, asking, "Where does the joy come from?" Whether addressing the accusation of a "libelous...
ISBN: 9780998196350
more detailsFolly
Poems
David Axelrod’s new collection of poems, Folly, is perhaps his most personal, vivid and honest work to date. Taking Desderius Erasmus as his noble guide, Axelrod follows the road of folly, error and ignorance that...
ISBN: 9780991146536
more detailsWhat Next, Old Knife?
Poems
Ranging across a diverse contemporary society of night-school courses and displaced “adult learners,” from concrete apartment blocks full of exiles and poor economic migrants to the Iraq War, Germany of the 1930s, Vilna of the...
ISBN: 9780983997566
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