Author: CBA

13 years later and I still can’t translate Hygge.

 

As any rabbi would, with prayer, fill the gaps between the letters of his master’s name, I fill the gaps in and between my prayers with these words. On behalf of the victims, and with devotion to the city of my upbringing and the city beneath where my grandparents and great-grandparents rest, I offer this poetic genealogy:

 

 

 

Tin House 70, Winter 2016

“It is the belief of all of us here at Tin House that art is our resistance and our voice. Now more than ever we want to hear what story can tell us…We want Chaim ben Avram to talk to us in love poems, somewhere in the backyard of America.”

http://www.tinhouse.com/store/product/winter-reading-2016-issue-70/

 

West Branch 79, Fall 2015

http://www.bucknell.edu/west-branch-wired/print-magazine/recent-print-issues.html

 

& tzimtzum: the contracture (PDF)

Chiron Review 101, Fall 2015

http://www.chironreview.com/product/issue-101-fall-2015/

 

Links to Post-MFA / Post-Harlem haze…

 

http://www.softblow.org/chaimbenavram

http://www.decompmagazine.com/sambationthesabbathriver.htm

Chaim ben Avram