by Gary Barwin
I thank my parents, in-laws, siblings and children for their continued support, enthusiasm and curiosity. And my wife, Beth Bromberg-Barwin for the whole of our life (there—take that, cheesy videography guy!).
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By Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star. Copyright ©1977 by The Heirs of Clarice Lispector. Translation copyright 2011 by Benjamin Moser. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt of “We Were Never Meant to Break Like This” from This Wound is a World. Copyright © 2017 by Billy-Ray Belcourt, published by Frontenac House, Calgary, Alberta, and reprinted with permission.
Excerpt of “Autopsychographia” from Recalculating. Copyright © 2013 by Charles Bernstein, published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, and reprinted with permission.
“Makh Tsi di Eygelekh” words by Isaiah Shpigl and Dovid Beyglman, translation by Dr. Gila Flam, and reprinted with permission from Dr. Gila Flam and Music and the Holocaust. http://www.holocaustmusic.org/
“Shtiler, Shtiler (Hush, Hush), Song of the Vilna Ghetto” words by Alexander (Alek) Wolkowyski (later Tamir), lyrics adapted from a poem by his father, Dr. Noah (Leon) Wolkowyski, translation by Aviad Te’eni. www.tabletmag.com
Quotation from Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit. Copyright © 2004 by Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books, Chicago, Illinois, and reprinted with permission.
Quotation from The Truce by Primo Levi. Copyright © 1965 by Primo Levi, published in English by Bodley Head, London, United Kingdom.
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GARY BARWIN is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of twenty-three books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His recent national bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and the Hamilton Literary Award. It was also a finalist for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New and Selected Poems was also recently published to much acclaim. A PhD in music composition, Barwin has taught creative writing at a number of colleges and universities. His prose and poetry has been published in hundreds of magazines and journals internationally—from Reader’s Digest to Granta and the Walrus. Born in Northern Ireland to South African parents of Ashkenazi descent, Barwin lives in Hamilton, Ontario.