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Passover Originated in Poetic Vision

By Robin Bates | Published: April 14, 2022

In this Passover poem, Harvey Shapiro traces the movement from direct encounter with God to the Passover story.

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Drawn Forth to Eat the History Feast

By Robin Bates | Published: April 19, 2019

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. […]

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