{"title":"Yehoshua November","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"two-worlds-exist-1","title":"Two Worlds Exist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: book antiqua palatino;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eFinalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYehoshua November's second poetry collection \u003cem\u003eTwo Worlds Exist\u003c\/em\u003e movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America. November's beautiful and profound meditations on work and family life and the intersections of the sacred and the secular invite the reader-regardless of background-to imaginatively inhabit a life of religious devotion in the midst of our society's commotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYehoshua November\u003c\/b\u003e's first poetry collection \u003ci\u003eGod's Optimism\u003c\/i\u003e won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. November's poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Writer's Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Rutgers University and Touro College and lives in Teaneck NJ with his wife and children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"November manages to bring the same gravity and grace to both the common and the cosmic.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"November inspires welcomes surprises enriches wrestles and consoles in these poems that matter.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New York Jewish Week\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are like a documentary film-close to life narrating episodes from everyday life (many of them happening within the Chassidic community). But under the skin of these poems a flame of passion-or compassion-is hidden. Hidden and palpable at the same time. That's how Yehoshua November creates such beautiful surprises for his readers.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Zagajewski\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I have read these beautiful poems many times over. Each time I find something new and wonderful and deeper and more spiritual therein. \u003cem\u003eTwo Worlds Exist\u003c\/em\u003e is an even stronger book than November's first collection. So full of sorrow and humility and reverence love and pain and the actual stuff of our lives-the guilt of the small cruelties we inflict the large cruelties life inflicts wavering and unwavering faith that there is something greater than ourselves behind it all.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eLiz Rosenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Yehoshua November's poems are deeply felt carefully crafted insightful and moving. While contemporary American literary culture tends to view \u0026amp;lsquoreligious' and \u0026amp;lsquoliterary' values in opposition November's poetry brilliantly bridges this divide. He writes with tenderness understanding and disarming modesty at the same time his characteristic subjects-the challenges posed by married life child rearing and suffering both physical and spiritual-are among the great subjects of literature and life.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Caplan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321572401302,"sku":"9780990691792","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_eb2bede5-e62d-4b79-85e7-159c393e9ecf.jpg?v=1642157285"},{"product_id":"the-concealment-of-endless-light","title":"The Concealment of Endless Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third poetry collection from Yehoshua November, whose previous books have been finalists for The National Jewish Book Award, The Paterson Poetry Prize, and The \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Prize, extends the marriage of mysticism and everyday life that has become November's signature and particular strength as a poet. As Ilya Kaminsky puts it, \"In the same breath, he describes a soul's journey and eating breakfast with his children.\" Whether considering the trajectory of his marriage, the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooting, the paradoxes of mystical Chassidic teachings, or an email from his grandfather when the poet was 18, November's poems never fail to penetrate beyond the surface to the mystery underlying the full spectrum of human experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYehoshua November\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eGod's Optimism,\u003c\/em\u003e a finalist for The\u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Prize, and Two Worlds Exist, a finalist for The National Jewish Book Award and The Paterson Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and on NPR and Poetry Unbound. November teaches writing at Rutgers University and Touro University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegantly crafted, beautifully philosophical, and passionately devoted to exploring the profundity of earthly life, \u003cem\u003eThe Concealment of Endless Light \u003c\/em\u003echronicles a quest for the divine amid the ordinary. Never holier-than-thou, the speaker in November's poems is always conscious of the ways he's failed his family, himself, and his God. Nonetheless, he persists in reaching out to the divine to illuminate the experiences of a soul in a body.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMaria Mazziotti Gillan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"How does Yehoshua November do it? How does he balance the lofty and mundane with such grace? This remarkable poet finds mystery in kitchens and hardware stores, dry cleaners and classrooms. In the same breath, he describes a soul's journey and eating breakfast with his children. In this world of ours where human beings do horrible things to each other, November looks for souls inside bodies. Certainly, that gives him a perspective on our species. But there is something else, too. Mystics have been trying to 'nail' this something for generations, to name it. November answers this metaphysical challenge—he names the unnamable—via his skillful use of figurative language. But there is more, yet. Friends, these days in our country, we go to school to learn to make sentences and to divide and multiply numbers. But where can we learn awe and wonderment? The answer is November's humane and deeply searching poems. He has a wisdom which is necessary if one is to travel from one day to the next. November is one of our most brilliant Jewish American poets of this moment.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful poet with a unique vision and distinct voice, Yehoshua November opens worlds within worlds. In \u003cem\u003eThe Concealment of Endless Light\u003c\/em\u003e, he describes poetry as 'that profession of rowing \/ through the rivers of the heart \/ with oars made of memory \/ and sadness,' though in his case memory and speculation are illuminated by the daily wakings of a father and husband scratching out a living as a teacher and backlit by the soul, despite 'a Divine concealment whose diameter is greater \/ than infinity.' In a moving poem about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, November gathers the dead around him on a street where the 'Jews of Pittsburgh \/ stand in the rain \/ holding candles' while 'eleven souls ascend to the region of mystery \/ then swoop down to hover, incandescently, over their former lives,' consecrating a place where 'no one can explain how [the body] limps forward \/ but has not faltered.' Neither does this poet falter, but moves forward with dignity and grace.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDorianne Laux \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Novem­ber speaks for those who know the ten­der­ness and frailty of the world and the dreams and con­cerns of being human. Ulti­mate­ly, his poems expose what is con­cealed, and let it rev­el in the light.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eJulie R. Enszer\u003c\/strong\u003e, Jewish Book Council\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"[Yehoshua November] writes with rare ease, honesty, humility and beauty about the Divine as well as the mundane; worlds come together in his writing. [...] This collection of spiritual poetry is one that even secularists and skeptics will find engaging and powerful.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eSandee Brawarsky,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHadassah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"In November's deft hand, the small details of living become the spines of poems on being.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eThe Jerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49115976925501,"sku":"9781949039504","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781949039504ita.jpg?v=1721075454"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/yehoshua-november.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}