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Nettie Farris Like the Psalms of David, not a collection to be read beginning to end in one sitting. Instead, these poems are best savored, one at a time, perhaps randomly. The organization of the collection defies simplistic classification and division. These poems are arranged in alphabetical order according to authors’ last names. I came to this collection of poems published by the Ashland Poetry Press with one question: What does it mean to be Jewish? I abandon the collection with a more general question: What does it mean to be human? You might begin, as I did, with Jane Yolen’s poem, “Shoes: Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C.” I am not Jewish myself, and I wanted to start with something familiar. Jane Yolen, I knew I could trust. Long ago, I read many of her picture books to my children, and I admire her work on fairy tales.  Her poem, here, is also familiar. It’s a meditation on the difference in knowledge residing in our heads and knowledge residing in our h

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