From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler Sale Books opting instead for connections that

opting instead for connections that twist traditional models of gender and history

our King  אֿבינו מלּכנו   traditional   Hebrew 4:18

and way of life

פַאר װעמען זָאל איך שרַײען  folk / P

his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre

From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler Sale Books opting instead for connections thatTranslated by Maia Evrona The first Yiddish English bilingual edition of one of Yiddish literatures most vital post war poets. Born in the Ukrainian town of Haysin and raised in Crimea, Yosef Kerler was perhaps the only Yiddish poet to publish poetry written in the gulag. He would later become one of the first prominent refuseniks. This collection proves strikingly timely, with the poets complicated relationship to his cradle land echoing throughout,