Book description
Mark Rudman - poet, essayist, translator, and teacher - has
consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and
in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessional to a new
plane. In a polyphonic narrative that combines verse with lyrical prose
and often humorous dialogue, Rudman examines his own coming-of-age
through the lens of his relationships with his grandfather, father,
step-father, and son. These memories emerge against the background of a
family history anchored in the traditions of Judaism and the culture of
the diaspora. "A dynamic, passionate, many-textured dialogue
between a writer and his ghosts, obsessive, caustic, grieving, and witty
. . . the fierce dialogue between the writer and his voices propels the
poem forward with psychic complexity and emotional
continuity."--Harvard Review MARK RUDMAN is Adjunct Professor in
the writing programs at Columbia University and New York University,
editor of the literary magazine Pequod, and recipient of numerous
awards. His most recent book if Diverse Voices (1993). Poet, essayist,
and translator, Mark Rudman's recent books include Provoked in Venice
(1999), Millennium Hotel (1996), and Realm of Unknowing (1995).
