Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poem, Brooklyn NY, Marilyn Hacker on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph from New York Public Library collection.
You, who stood alone in the tall bay window
of a Brooklyn brownstone, conjuring morning
with free-flying words, knew the power, terror
in words, in flying;”
Elegy for a Soldier by Marilyn Hacker in Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002
I am on hiatus for approximately six weeks. Meanwhile, I leave you with an old-time Brooklyn picture [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baba Ghanouz, Brooklyn NY, Food, gluten-and-wheat free, Halva, Hummus bi Tahini, Joyva Company, Lebanese Coffee, Recipes, Tahini & Lemon, Tahini & Yogurt, Tahini Recipes, Tahini w/Lemon & Spice, Tahini with Almonds, Turkish Coffee on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Photograph of canned sesame tahini from The Joyva Corporation.
The Joyva Corporation is good old Brooklyn business that celebrates its one hundreth birthday this year. Among other things, it manufactures tahini and a really excellent halva.
Halva is a sweet confection, a small piece of which is often nice after a meal along with a Lebanese or Turkish [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1950s, Brooklyn NY, Cantor Yosef Rosenblatt, Connie Francis, Hanukah, immigrant experience, My Yiddishe Mama, novel excerpt, novel writing, Steinway Piano, writing, writing life on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photograph by Jamie Dedes
I often use music to nurture the mood of a scene. For the piece that follows, I used Cantor Rosenblatt’s My Yiddishe Mama of which Connie Francis did a pop Italian-American version.I find this particular song evocative of the conflicting pull of the old and new on immigrant peoples that I observed growing up [...]
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