Stewart Florsheim's Books
Apr.01.2011
"Mother...wants to know why I keep writing," Stewart Florsheim says in his moving and heartbreaking poem, "Mother Wants to Know." "It's not about me I hope," she adds. Well, it is about her, and about us, and about hope, and the interrelation of life and art. I celebrate this new collection of poems which reminds me how we live for those split...
"Stewart Florsheim has written a Moebius strip of a book, starting with the nearly unspeakable grief of being the child of ill-matched parents, and proceeding by turns into the amorous education of a young man, the perspicuity of a middle-aged aesthete (many of the poems here take their cue from great paintings), and finally marriage and fatherhood, which loop back with irony...
About Stewart
Stewart Florsheim was born in New York City, the son of refugees from Hitler’s Germany. He has received several awards for his poetry and has been widely published in magazines and anthologies. He was the editor of Ghosts of the Holocaust, an anthology of...
Causes Stewart Florsheim Supports
Compassion & Choices of Northern California
American Jewish World Service
Save Darfur
Doctors Without Borders
East Bay College...