In this Passover poem, Harvey Shapiro traces the movement from direct encounter with God to the Passover story.
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Passover Originated in Poetic Vision
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Drawn Forth to Eat the History Feast
Saturday – Passover I asked my poet friend Norman Finkelstein for a good Passover poem and he alerted me to this one by Harvey Shapiro, found in Mountain, Fire, Thornbush (Swallow, 1961). The Passover seder, of course, revolves around remembering, and Shapiro’s poem points out that remembering was already part of the initial Exodus events. […]
