Homecoming Poems by Rebecca Herz

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Homecoming (Prolific Pulse Press) explores a multifaceted concept of the Divine as evolved during the poet’s early adulthood. The poet poses the question: who am I in relationship to the G-d of my tradition?

Homecoming is one poet’s encounter with the G-d of her ancestors, with herself, and with her teachers. She wanders through time and space, from 1930s Eastern Europe to 2019 Jerusalem, the foot of BCE Mt. Sinai, to 2016 Paris. The journey through these poems is non-linear, ever moving toward the future while reaching into the past. In these lines, the self becomes a permeable membrane for experience, a vessel for the voices of the ancestors to inhabit. At all stages of the journey, there are teachers, both in traditional and nontraditional forms. There is a poet in a concentration camp who keeps her lover’s hair in a hidden hairbrush, risking her life for a reminder of her humanity. In another poem, the Jewish people wait for Moses at the foot of Mt. Sinai, and their…