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Strange Air Above the Ladder

JL;DR SUMMARY Yehoshua November's latest poetry collection, "The Concealment of Endless Light," straddles the boundaries between the kabbalistic and the everyday. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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RelationshipsPoetryJewish LifeKabbalahFaithYehoshua NovemberHasidismDivine PresenceIronyMundane And Sacred

Places mentioned

Salem, Massachusetts, United States
"Here is the final stanza of Hearing Roy Orbison in a Mikvah in Salem, MA, a poem that is a meditation on prayer, suffering, and divine judgmentor the lack thereof:"
Jerusalem, Israel
"The poem Ein Sof Radio describes a 1934 photograph of a rabbi in Jerusalem."
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