Shabbat

Judith writes:
I wrote "Shabbat" thinking about the relentlessness of time, a preoccupation of mine since I was quite young. I don't keep Shabbat, but I imagined it in this poem. Friends who do keep it tell me that it works this way for them.

Judith Kerman has published eight books or chapbooks of poetry, most recently the bilingual collection Plane Surfaces/Plano de Incidencia (Santo Domingo: CCLEH, 2002). Her book of translations, A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems of Dulce Marķa Loynaz (Cuban; Cervantes Prize laureate, 1992), was published by White Pine Press in 2002. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to the Dominican Republic in 2002, translating the poetry and fiction of contemporary Dominican women. Judith can be reached via email at kerman@svsu.edu.