Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

June 7, 2016

Delmore Schwartz’s Promised Land

Harms and the child.

Reviewing a new volume of selected works by the American poet and short-story writer Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966), Adam Kirsch notes his preoccupation with Jewish sons and their fathers (a preoccupation shared, according to Kirsch, by the contemporary writer Adam Ehrlich Sachs). He writes:

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