This is an extraordinary poetry collection, mining a core where language and silence meet and, through their interchange, interrogate psychological complexities of what it means to be human, embodied, yet simultaneously divine. These truly brilliant poems disclose a consciousness certain of the transformative power of language, a language at once rugged and tender.
Poetry. Born in New York in 1928, Gene Frumkin is a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico, where he served from 1966-1994. He lived in the Bronx where his first poem was a spontaneous couplet in Yiddish at age four, and his work in poetry has been influenced at various times by Black Mountain, surrealism and language writing. "Gene Frumkin's Freud By Other Means is an extraordinary collection, mining a core where language and silence meet and, through their interchange, interrogate psychological complexities of what it means to be human, embodied, yet simultaneously divine--I want to call him a 'treasure', and I will, since this book, like his others, is a storehouse where each poem is a jewel that, when turned in the light of the reader's consciousness, reveals an immensity of being for which we can all be grateful"--George Kalamaras.
