Secular Audacity - Gaines-Friedler, Joy
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Just as it is audacious to stand up for justice, it is audacious to write a poem. It is audacious to read poetry. This collection of poems looks at life through a secular-albeit Jewish-lens, recognizing, even celebrating mystery, awe, joy, humor, justice and injustice without assigning divine authority. Joy Gaines-Friedler's decision to present epigraphs by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel originates with how deeply his philosophy, theology, and scholarship move her. Rabbi Heschel's social consciousness draws her to him and to what he calls the "Jewish prophecy of civil justice." That belief…mehr

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Just as it is audacious to stand up for justice, it is audacious to write a poem. It is audacious to read poetry. This collection of poems looks at life through a secular-albeit Jewish-lens, recognizing, even celebrating mystery, awe, joy, humor, justice and injustice without assigning divine authority. Joy Gaines-Friedler's decision to present epigraphs by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel originates with how deeply his philosophy, theology, and scholarship move her. Rabbi Heschel's social consciousness draws her to him and to what he calls the "Jewish prophecy of civil justice." That belief brought Rabbi Heschel and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. together to walk arm in arm across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in 1965. In the poem "The Hebrew Word for Mysticism is the Same as To Receive," the speaker drops to the ground to hold the hand of a girl suffering a seizure in a parking lot. Something spiritual takes place between these two strangers; something not explained through the notion of god, or God, yet recognized as a mitzvah, the Jewish call to action. The poems in Secular Audacity move through holidays and funerals. They take place in an amusement park, a car, an assisted living facility, a barber shop, a golf course, a city bus, the back yard while looking for monarch larvae. Joy Gaines-Friedler believes that poetry audaciously allows us to love the stranger, establish connections, and to embrace the ambiguities we live with every day.
Autorenporträt
After twenty years as a professional photographer, Joy Gaines-Friedler turned her lens to the written page. "Secular Audacity" is her sixth book of poetry. Her previous book, "Capture Theory", was a Finalist for the Forward Indies Best Book of the Year Award. Among other recognitions and awards, Ms. Gaines-Friedler's manuscript "Stone on Your Stone" was co-winner with Diana Dinverno of the 2021 Friends of Poetry/Celery City Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her work is also included in the anthology "101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium" and has received multiple nominations for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net.A graduate of Ashland University Ms. Gaines-Friedler holds an MFA in Creative Writing. She has taught for community colleges and universities, as well as many non-profit organizations that include literary arts programs and programs servicing at-risk communities in prisons, shelters, and asylum homes. She currently teaches workshops in memoir and poetry both online and in her home in Farmington Hills, Michigan.