[New-Poetry] Richard Howard’s Jewish Roots

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Praising Sacred Places: Richard Howard’s Jewish Roots

By Benjamin Ivry
Tue. Feb 03, 2009


For a half-century, the poet, critic, and translator Richard Howard has been an expert investigator of artistic motivations and inspirations, yet his own roots, as a product of Cleveland’s Jewish middle class, have rarely been explored. On Feb 8, Howard will give a reading at New York’s Metropolitan Museum to introduce the new Pierre Bonnard exhibit, logically enough, since he translated “Bonnard/Matisse: Letters Between Friends” (Abrams,1992), among hundreds of other books.

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