Night Said by Barbara Rockman - ISBN: 9780826370136
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Memory, heritage, aging: a poet’s journey through nature’s embrace.
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    112 pages

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    13 October 2026

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Summary

Part elegy, part celebration, and full of lush descriptions of the natural world, this collection reckons with memory, aging, and the author’s Jewish-Ukrainian heritage.

From the endless star-filled skies of her chosen high-desert home to the lakes and farmland of her New England childhood to the imagined villages of her Ukrainian ancestors, award-winning poet Barbara Rockman reaches for belonging. Rockman’s Jewish heritage is woven through her searches for the ineffable, complemented…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780826370136
ISBN-10:0826370136
Author:Barbara Rockman
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:University of New Mexico Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:13 October 2026
Weight:106g
Dimensions:13mm x 152mm x 229mm
Series:Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
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Critics Review

“Thoughtful, elegant, and wise, Night said explores the complexities of what it means to be a twenty-first-century Jew living in the Diaspora. Throughout her latest collection, Barbara Rockman simultaneously looks back—both to the distant ancestral past and to more recent histories of displacement—as well as forward into the future. ‘Travel small,’ the book advises, but, in fact, the speaker travels very large, carrying enormous stories, rituals, traumas, and memories in her ‘overpacked valise.’ These are poems that wander from the flowering, desert landscapes of New Mexico to the rivers and fields of Ukraine and back again, crossing from generation to generation, searching for angels that ‘swarm and lean into each retold tale.’” - Jehanne Dubrow, author of The Arranged Marriage: Poems

About The Author

Barbara Rockman

Barbara Rockman is the author of two other award-winning collections of poetry, to cleave and Sting and Nest. For the past thirty years Rockman has taught poetry at Santa Fe Community College and in community workshops. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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