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An Interview with Chana Bloch – Coal Hill Review

  • Chana Bloch (March 15, 1940 – May 19, 2017) was an American poet, [1] translator, and scholar.
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      Chana Bloch (March 15, – May 19, ) was an American poet, [1] translator, and scholar.

    About Chana Bloch - Academy of American Poets

  • Chana Bloch was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx.
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    Blood Honey

    Apprehended and held without trial,
    our friend was sentenced:
    brain tumor, malignant.
    Condemned each day to wake
    and remember.

    Overnight, a wall sprang up around him,
    leaving the rest of us
    outside.

    Death passed over us this time.
    We're still at large. We're free
    to get out of bed, start the coffee,
    open the blinds.
    The first of the human freedoms.

    If he's guilty
    we must be guilty; we're all made of
    the same cup of dust—

    It's a blessing, isn't it? To be able,
    days at a time,
    to forget what we are.


    *

    These numbered days
    have a concentrated sweetness
    that's pressed from us,
    the dying man most of all.

    Today we eat brunch at Chester's,
    poached egg on toast,
    orange juice foaming in frosted glasses.

    He remembers the summer he packed blood oranges,
    stripped to the waist,
    drinking the fresh-squeezed juice in the factory
    straight from the tap.
    He cups his left hand under his chin
    as if to a faucet, laughing.

    He is scoopi

    Biography of Chana Bloch

      A self-described Jewish humanist, Chana Bloch was an honored poet who was also prominent in many fields.
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  • A native of the Bronx, Bloch (born Florence Faerstein) grew up speaking Yiddish with her Ukrainian shtetl-born parents.
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      Chana Bloch was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx.

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  • Chana Bloch (born March 15, 1940, Bronx, NY) is an American poet, translator, and scholar.
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    A self-described Jewish humanist, Chana Bloch was an honored poet who was also prominent in many fields.
    Chana Bloch is the author of three books of poems and the translator of Yehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch.

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      Chana Bloch (born March 15, , Bronx, NY) is an American poet, translator, and scholar.