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The Short Fall from Grace
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781595409829
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Apr 3 2006
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
WINNER OF THE 2005 BLUE LIGHT BOOK AWARD
Stewart Florsheim was born in New York City, the son ofrefugees from Hitler's Germany. He has received severalawards for his poetry and has been widely published inmagazines and anthologies. He was the editor of Ghosts of theHolocaust, an anthology of poetry by children of Holocaustsurvivors (Wayne State University Press, 1989). He wrote thepoetry chapbook, The Girl Eating Oysters (2River, 2004). He alsowrites non-fiction. Stewart's day job is in the technical writingfield. He also sits on the board of directors of Compassion andChoices of Northern California, an organization that helps theterminally ill make end-of-life decisions. Stewart lives in the SanFrancisco Bay Area with his wife, two daughters, and dog.
The following poems appeared in Round Table, 1986: The GirlEating Oysters, The Jewish Singles Event, The Best Breadin Montparnasse
The Jewish Singles Event appeared in Ghosts of the Holocaust(Wayne State University Press, 1989) and in Unsettling America: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Poetry (VikingPenguin, 1994)
The Kitchen Sink appeared in Karamu, 1993 (under the title,The Hotel Albert, 1969) and in Slipstream 19, 1999
My Father's Autopsy appeared in DoubleTake, 2:4, Fall, 1996
Recent Findings, 1996 appeared in And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century (under the title, RecentFindings) (The Ashland Poetry Press, 1999)
The Only Jew in Oswiecim appeared in Poetry on the Akeda asModern Midrash by Rabbi Steven Chester, 1999
Exposed appeared in Rattle 14, 2000
Thirst appeared in 88, A Journal of Contemporary AmericanPoetry, Issue 1, December, 2001 and Compassion and ChoicesMagazine, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring, 2005
Survival appeared in the Seatttle Review Volume XXV, Number1, 2002
Retribution appeared in Poetica, 2003
Initiation and The Unseen appeared in Full Circle, Volume1, Issue 6, 2003
Mr. S and Once, After Swimming appeared in The 2RiverView, Winter 8.2, 2004
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