Bernadette
Publisher
I’m delighted to let you know that Holland Park Press has just signed up Norbert Hirschhorn’s new poetry collection: To Sing Away the Darkest Days - Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs.
To Sing Away the Darkest Days is the culmination of a five-year project which saw Norbert Hirschhorn source more than one thousand Yiddish songs. The songs helped Norbert to rediscover and trace his own Jewish cultural history. However, some of the songs ‘spoke’ to him as a poet and begged for a new translation, or ‘re-imagining’ as he calls it, into English poems.
The resulting collection tells the story of the emigrant, the Jew in the Diaspora. Norbert adds his unique view: he personalises the Diaspora, and at the same time brings a vanished culture back to life.
Norbert Hirschhorn is a physician specializing in international public health, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an ‘American Health Hero’. His poems have been published in over three dozen journals and won a number of prizes in the US and UK. To Sing Away the Darkest Days is his fourth full collection.
To Sing Away the Darkest Days, http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/book_detail.php?book_id=34, which will be published in May 2013, is not only a wonderful collection of poems but also a unique historical document.
To Sing Away the Darkest Days is the culmination of a five-year project which saw Norbert Hirschhorn source more than one thousand Yiddish songs. The songs helped Norbert to rediscover and trace his own Jewish cultural history. However, some of the songs ‘spoke’ to him as a poet and begged for a new translation, or ‘re-imagining’ as he calls it, into English poems.
The resulting collection tells the story of the emigrant, the Jew in the Diaspora. Norbert adds his unique view: he personalises the Diaspora, and at the same time brings a vanished culture back to life.
Norbert Hirschhorn is a physician specializing in international public health, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an ‘American Health Hero’. His poems have been published in over three dozen journals and won a number of prizes in the US and UK. To Sing Away the Darkest Days is his fourth full collection.
To Sing Away the Darkest Days, http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/book_detail.php?book_id=34, which will be published in May 2013, is not only a wonderful collection of poems but also a unique historical document.