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Blood Honey reviewed in TLS

chana — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:17:00 +0000

There’s a wonderful review of Blood Honey in the Times Literary Supplement. http://chanabloch.com/review-pdf/TLS_on_bloodhoney_2-5-10%20.pdf

It concludes: ”In Chana Bloch’s compressed work, a great deal goes on between the lines, including shifts in tonality as the seemingly light-hearted gives way to something much darker; still, its appetite for life is more than equal to the tragic underside of both the personal and the historical.”

Persimmon Tree feature

chana — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:12:57 +0000

Chana Bloch’s poetry is featured in the winter issue of Persimmon Tree, http://www.persimmontree.org/ an online journal of the arts by women over sixty. There’s a selection from her four books of poems, including her new collection, Blood Honey, along with a beautiful introduction, “Writing a Woman’s Life,” by Anita Barrows, her poetry buddy for 36 years.

Two terrific reviews of Blood Honey have just appeared!

chana — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:26:46 +0000

Jake Marmor, “Chana Bloch’s ‘Blood Honey’: Where Abraham Meets Baba Yaga,” The Jewish Daily Forward (Nov. 20, 2009). http://www.forward.com/articles/118757/

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, “Late Love: Blood Honey by Chana Bloch,” Tikkun (Nov./Dec. 2009). http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/nov_dec_09_latelove

New poems are out in the fall/winter issues of Field, Tikkun, and Southern Poetry Review; prose in the fall Poet Lore and soon in the spring 2010 Poetry International.