Goldbarth ad Parnassum

posted by Margot Lurie The recently released tenth volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization contains a prose poem by Albert Goldbarth entitled “Parnassus”—published, naturally, in Parnassus Volume 17, No. 1/Volume 18, No.2. The speaker of the poem, asked to be the tenth man in a prayer quorum, ends with a sweet fusion of the Hebraic and the Hellenic: This is why I believe in the Muses, of course. ... Read More