The poems in Birthright embody multiple legacies: genetic, historical, religious, and literary.
Here, a poet claims what is hers as a child of her particular parents; as a grandchild of refugees from Nazi Germany; as a Jew, a woman, a Gen Xer, and a New Yorker; as a reader of the Bible and Shakespeare and Flaubert an.
Through the lens of one person\'s experience of inheritance, the poems suggest ways in which all of us may be influenced by how we perceive and process our lives and times.
The poems in Birthright embody multiple legacies: genetic, historical, religious, and literary