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Irena Klepfisz
Irena Klepfisz taught Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College for 22 years. She is the author of five books of poetry including Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems...view moreIrena Klepfisz taught Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College for 22 years. She is the author of five books of poetry including Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 (winner of the 2023 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry; finalist for a 2023 National Jewish Book Award), Periods of Stress, Keeper of Accounts, Different Enclosures, A Few Words in the Mother Tongue, and a collection of essays Dreams of an Insomniac. She is one of the foremost advocates of the Yiddish language and its renaissance in the United States. Her work has appeared in Tablet Magazine, The Manhattan Review, The Georgia Review, In Geveb, Sinister Wisdom, The Current, and Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures.view less
Books by Irena Klepfisz
Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems, 1971-2021 Sex-pol: Essays, 1929-1934 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5