God Is a Tree, and Other Middle-Age Prayers

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Poetry. You will smile all the way through this collection of poems. Gentle, wry, and wise. A comfort to know we are not alone in this complicated journey. – Librarian, Amazon

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Poetry. Esther Cohen writes with humor and joy and lots of energy. You can’t help but smile when you encounter her delightful images. In her title poem, for example, you learn that she once wrote a poem and “‘God Is a Tree’ was the title. / Louis Savitsky didn’t like it./ He asked why / I had the chutzpah / to believe I knew. / A few years later, Louis’s daughter / became a Scientologist.” It is those seemingly unrelated comments, presented with a straight “face,” that startle and amuse as they challenge one’s thinking. These poems have a definite Jewish tone to them, but certainly one doesn’t need to be Jewish in order to appreciate them.

 

Esther Cohen (Book Doctor, Don’t Mind Me and Other Jewish Lies, BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG, PAINTING BROOKLYN and No Charge for Looking) lives in New York City where she is Executive Director of Bread and Roses, the national non-profit cultural program of New York’s union for health care workers. Winner of a Pure Visionary Award for a photographic project she initiated to give cameras and photography lessons to working men and women across the country, Cohen is a storyteller and humorist. For more on Esther, her books and a poem a day, esthercohen.com

Esther Cohen on her bio: Well it shouldn’t be impossible for me to write a biography that is honest and satisfying and helpful and maybe even funny. But it is. I am never entirely sure what to say, what details would be interesting and helpful and useful to you, The Reader, you reader of these sentences and many others. I am tallish. And curious. I am getting older.



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