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  • Justice, Justice: Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man

    by Herb Brin ...
    What is the measure of man? In this extraordinary collection of poems, Herb Brin rages against injustice and oppression with deeply felt passion. "Not to the weak of art does artistry belong," Brin declares in the opening line of this book. Herb brings to his poetry the same burning indignation against bigot and tyrant, the same compassion for the persecuted as he did in his widely-quoted ... Read more

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  • Ich Bin Ein Jude: Travels through Europe on the Edge of Savagery

    by Herb Brin ...
    In a proud affirmation, "Ich bin ein Jude" – I am a Jew -- journalist and poet Herb Brin retraces the train routes over which boxcars transported millions of Jews to their bitter fate during the Holocaust. Boarding in Istanbul in 1978, Herb travels through Greece, Yugoslavia, and Austria, then onward to Poland, where he visits the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek, seeking the ... Read more

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  • Conflicts

    by Herb Brin ...
    In this moving collection of poems, Herb Brin lyricized man's basic humanity – and his all-too frequent inhumanity. Above all, Brin shines light on injustice, as he turns his eye to conflicts that roil across the expanse of history. "Where there is conflict, pray for conscience," wrote Brin as, in powerful verse, he forces the reader to confront his or her own conscience. Herb Brin was a ... Read more

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  • Nobody Died Laughing

    by Herb Brin ...
    Light, joyful poetry you will not find here. These are poems infused with passion, with pain, with indignation, and especially with anger, as Herb Brin sweeps through millennia of Jewish history, directing his fury at the persecutions of the Crusades, the Inquisition, the travesties of war and especially the Holocaust. Brin also writes movingly of the California Gold Rush, of his travels through ... Read more

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  • Shouting for Justice: The Journey of a Jewish Journalist

    by Herb Brin ...
    This memoir of Herb Brin reveals a truly unique American life, the story of a courageous journalist, publisher, and poet, who was a tireless fighter, both for his people and for justice. Born in 1915 to a poor Chicago family of immigrants from Poland and Russia, Herb became a gangland reporter in 1930s Chicago, served as an army reporter during World War II, then covered top stories for the Los ... Read more

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  • Wild Flowers: From a Garden of Jewish Verse

    by Herb Brin ...
    Songs of love, songs of war, songs of faith, and songs of spring. Here is an unusual collection of poems reflecting the dreams and sense of wonder of a gifted, sensitive Jewish poet who is able to convey the tenderness of man's agonies and loves, his despairs and his hopes, his failings and dreams of a better world. Herb Brin's poems resonate with a deep sense of history, from the battlegrounds of ... Read more

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  • Poems from the Rubio

    by Herb Brin ...
    A moving collection of poems reflecting Herb Brin's love of nature and his passion for the Jewish spirit. His verses are the cry, the laughter, the little sorrows and the eternal triumphs of a man – and of a people. Praise for Poems from the Rubio:"How a journalist, how an editor could also be a brilliant poet is a source of astonishment – and of gratitude." –Elie Wiesel (Nobel winner for ... Read more

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  • Poetry After 9/11

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  • Killing the Buddha

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