These poems explore subjects drawn from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish mysticism as well as contemporary Jewish American life and imagination. The poet, who is also a celebrated expert in Jewish folklore and storytelling, has assembled a collection that includes new work, standout favorites, and some poems that have been long out of print, all from a career spanning nearly fifty years. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes, ¿Truly remarkable¿.The poems become immediate treasures.¿ Philip Levine writes, ¿Howard Schwartz has done the work, and his poems rise out of Jewish learning and of course from his heart, a heart schooled and matured in all that amazing lore.¿.