Poetry
We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune
2018·118 pages
A poetry collection of odes and elegies on Jewish heritage, family memory, desire, aging, and finding joy amid loss.
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A poetry collection of odes and elegies on Jewish heritage, family memory, desire, aging, and finding joy amid loss.
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and full-throated at the same time, Sarah Stern offers her readers the piercing force of sage, tender, and impassioned utterance. Her artfully understated voice rouses us to grasp what it is to be human and to live vehemently and wholeheartedly. 'Sometimes a sentence / Makes you love a stranger,' Stern insightfully writes in words that propel us to experience this poet’s formidable talents and compassion." —Yerra Sugarman is the author of two poetry collections, Forms of Gone and The Bag of Brok...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Recurring poems on desire, the erotic, love, and sensual intimacy
Violence & gore
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Allusions to wartime loss without graphic violent detail
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Jewish heritage and identity; finding the mystical in ordinary life
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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German Jewish identity before and after WWII; historical trauma
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Ancestral Holocaust grief and Jewish historical suffering themes
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