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Norman Finkelstein

2000

It was like this in the garden:

Ben Azzai looked and died,

Ben Zoma looked and went mad;

Akiba and I went forth in peace,

but they said I cut down the young plants.

I said that one is two

and they answered if two why not a thousand:

so they cast me from the congregation

—but they still come to hear me teach.

Meir went with me to…

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Norman Finkelstein

b. 1954

Poet Norman Finkelstein was born in New York, earned his doctorate at Emory University, and is a professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he teaches American literature, Jewish American literature, literary theory, and creative writing. He has published several volumes of poetry and works of literary criticism.

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