About
My work has been published in The New Republic, The Jewish Daily Forward, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and other magazines. My memoir Listen (Bloomsbury, 2006), was nominated for The Krause Essay Prize. My book of poetry Folly River (Dutton, 1980), was the winner of the first Open Competition of The National Poetry Series. I edited and wrote the introduction for Richard Wilbur's Creation (University of Michigan Press, 1983). I’ve been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell. I founded and for over thirty years directed The 92nd Street Y's Schools Project, bringing NYC public high school students to meet with renowned writers at the Y.
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Listen
Listen is a memoir of voices, the voices of parents that linger in the ears of children until the day when those children are able to sound their own note. It's the story of a childhood dominated by a professor father, a white haired mentor who dedicated himself to tutoring the author as a writer and a daughter in the great traditions of Western civilization: art, literature, music, Christianity, incest, dread.
