Refusenik
Lynn Melnick
In this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head-first through concentric waves of personal and generational trauma with her trademark fearlessness. Evincing a complex mind shaped by the late 20th century’s misplaced priorities, Refusenik interrogates misogyny and anti-Semitism across time and a shifting global landscape—from a football field in Los Angeles to a Russian shtetl to a beloved daughter’s Brooklyn bedroom. Variously unraveling and allowing for intricate tangles of anger, nostalgia and love, these agile poems furrow deeper into the terrain of Melnick’s much-celebrated earlier titles, arriving at a profound and pressured understanding of what it means to be a contemporary American. Audiobook recorded by JBI Library for inclusion in the Yetzirah Audio Poetry Series (YAPS!).
Duration - 1h 8m.
Author - Lynn Melnick.
Narrator - Lynn Melnick.
Published Date - Friday, 10 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2022 Lynn Melnick ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
In this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head-first through concentric waves of personal and generational trauma with her trademark fearlessness. Evincing a complex mind shaped by the late 20th century’s misplaced priorities, Refusenik interrogates misogyny and anti-Semitism across time and a shifting global landscape—from a football field in Los Angeles to a Russian shtetl to a beloved daughter’s Brooklyn bedroom. Variously unraveling and allowing for intricate tangles of anger, nostalgia and love, these agile poems furrow deeper into the terrain of Melnick’s much-celebrated earlier titles, arriving at a profound and pressured understanding of what it means to be a contemporary American. Audiobook recorded by JBI Library for inclusion in the Yetzirah Audio Poetry Series (YAPS!). Duration - 1h 8m. Author - Lynn Melnick. Narrator - Lynn Melnick. Published Date - Friday, 10 January 2025. Copyright - © 2022 Lynn Melnick ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:18
02 From Book Jacket
Duration:00:01:11
03 Dedications
Duration:00:00:23
04 To My Readers
Duration:00:00:10
05 Table of Contents
Duration:00:01:52
06 Introduction
Duration:00:00:18
07 The Night of the Murdered Poets
Duration:00:02:28
08 The Only Jew at the Mock Jewish Wedding
Duration:00:01:54
09 Getting On
Duration:00:00:37
10 When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Duration:00:00:58
11 Satan in Goray
Duration:00:02:48
12 Inauguration Poem
Duration:00:01:15
13 Foremothers
Duration:00:00:51
14 Tinseltown
Duration:00:01:00
15 We'd Like to Know a Little Bit About You for Our File
Duration:00:00:57
16 Glasnost Bowl
Duration:00:02:17
17 Losing the Narrative
Duration:00:01:05
18 New York City, 1994
Duration:00:01:04
19 Cannibal Island
Duration:00:01:36
20 American Value Inn
Duration:00:01:22
21 Too Jewish / shtetl kitsch
Duration:00:02:57
22 Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
Duration:00:01:27
23 Inauguration Poem
Duration:00:03:47
24 National Pastime
Duration:00:01:35
25 When You Lie Down and When You Rise Up
Duration:00:01:23
26 July 4, 2017
Duration:00:01:19
27 Zola Budd Is No Myth
Duration:00:01:38
28 Migration
Duration:00:01:00
29 Ripped Mom
Duration:00:00:40
30 A Jewish Christmas in Palm Springs
Duration:00:00:36
31 The Whole World Is the Best Land I Ever Lived
Duration:00:01:14
32 The Patron Saint of Lost Things
Duration:00:01:10
33 Time Will Change It, I'm Well Aware
Duration:00:00:41
34 Twelve
Duration:00:01:16
35 Refusenik
Duration:00:10:12
36 Tikkun Olam
Duration:00:01:34
37 This Fall
Duration:00:02:41
38 Listen
Duration:00:00:55
39 Notes
Duration:00:04:42
40 Acknowledgments
Duration:00:02:31
41 Bio
Duration:00:00:27
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:33