Word: chana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are three short meditations on "Jewish Identity." There is refreshing poetry by Chana Faerstein, John Morgan, and Andras Hamori. There are three thoughtful and informative studies of "new student action groups" by three new student activists. Finally, three contributions which the table of contents calls simply "articles...
...calling the poetry in this edition refreshing, I have in mind particularly the verses by Chana Faerstein. Her imagery is far from flawless ("Pearly and luminous as butterflies") and its density at times approaches contrivance ("Mousing up these lion paws of mountains"), but again and again the produces quickly paced lines that are genuinely exhiliarating "The weather here is salt; I want to scrub my soul in it. Typically, her best poem, Life Goes to a Party in Chelm, is her most audecious. It skips outrageously in and out of metaphores but they are never mixed, and she finally succeeds...
...best thing in the magaine is Andreas Teuber's "a Poem," which reduces to rubble the pretensions of what someone once called the "crotch school" of Cambridge, writing. Chana Faerstein's translation of Itzik Manger's poem "Jephthah's Daughter" has moments of power. But the magazine still does not publish enough undergraduate writing...
...poem just the the right form to complement his subject matter, which is the opposition of careful symmetry and undisciplined luxuriance. His second piece, Shoppers' World, struck me as slightly out of focus, but it still shows enough skill to outdistance the work submitted by three other poets: Chana Faerstein, Bruce Bennett and George Blecher...