How Long to Read Jewgirl

How Long Does it Take to Read Jewgirl?

It takes the average reader to read Jewgirl by Charlene Fix

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Description

Poet Charlene Fix examines her heritage, identity, and perspective as a "Jewgirl." Of the provocative title of her new poetry collection, Charlene Fix declares "if it has a sting, she appropriates the whole shebang." Despite describing herself as an "Unobservant Jew" whose personal rabbi is Walt Whitman, in these wide-ranging poems she does indeed embrace the "whole shebang" of her Jewishness, her heritage, identity, and perspective. In her opening poem she recalls how her father called her and her sister tsibeles, Yiddish for onions, an appropriate metaphor for the process by which she peels away the layers of her life experience to arrive at the "slight stem" at the heart of our common humanity, transcending any one faith. "My people are not the only ones / by far who have suffered trauma, then inflicted trauma in return," she writes. "But because they are my people, I came to the river with Muslims, / Christians, and Jews: all accidents of birth: we enter the world / to find one another and try to stop tears." What better purpose for poetry, or for life? "Reading Charlene Fix's JEWGIRL is like visiting a friend's kitchen with the whole family present--and not just Mom and Dad, but Bubby and Zayde, and people lost in the war, and ghosts from generations back who danced the dances no one knows now, some cracking jokes, and others sighing, still others lifting their drinks to the future--L'chaim!--a future where everyone (friend and stranger, Jew and Goy, Israeli and Palestinian), will somehow find a place at this table of life, this warm kitchen where everyone fits and is fed, is held and beheld, the light leaking out, into the winter night, as if to welcome guests. Read this touching and haunting book and join your place at the table!"--Philip Metres "These are masterful poems from a poet knowing and wise to our capacity for brutality and compassion, poems of great empathy, understanding that we are all survivors and that 'the heart's proclivity' is 'to experience the agonies of others as our own,' which is not only a Jewish, but a universal commandment. To somewhat alter the words of James Wright, these are the poems of a grown Jewgirl."--Philip Terman "The voice of JEWGIRL, whose title sets its unabashed tone, is candid, idiosyncratic, confiding, irreverent, devoted. A sprinkling of Yiddish words, like Kosher salt, enhances the flavor. Charlene Fix keeps her balance and her wits about her, 'can't sustain a grudge,' believes in 'Unmyopic/Sanity,' has 'a quirky gallows sense of humor' that comes with the ancestral turf. She punctures the grandiose, elevates the everyday; her style lightens history's weight with the vital energy of exuberant 'life propelled from tragedy ...' And who can resist a world where one's last supper is Chinese takeout?"--Eleanor Wilner Poetry. Family & Relationships. Jewish Studies.

How long is Jewgirl?

Jewgirl by Charlene Fix is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read Jewgirl Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Jewgirl aloud.

What Reading Level is Jewgirl?

Jewgirl is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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