Nancy Shiffrin

Allison's War

A romance set in the post Vietnam period in Los Angeles.

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Works

Poetry

The Vast Unknowing

poems of the creative life

"I seek solace in crashing waves salt breeze/inhale THE VAST UNKNOWING"

poems after 70

"your grip tightens/your wings batter the wind/ I know the flight has only begun"

This Sacred Earth

poems

"(I)wonder/what gene must mutate/for Evil to vanish/ from this sacred earth".

Out of the Garden

a novel/Invoking Anais Nin an essay

"There are no writer's blocks only secrets we're afraid of telling". Anais Nin

Game With Variations

Love poems

"I write/each day/on these sheets/reclaim/marrow bone sinew/ surrendered/each night/on those sheets"

THE EVERCHANGING and THE EVERLASTING:

One Jewish Awakening in the Culture of MultiCulturalism.

Dissertation: The Union Institute Cincinnati, Ohio

Prose Collections

MY JEWISH NAME essays
TOWARDS WHOLENESS essays, articles, reviews
PROSE ON POETRY, essays articles, reviews
ALLISON'S WAR a novel
available as pdf files from Nancy Shiffrin nshiffrin@earthlink.net