A central theme of this memoir by poet and translator Willis Barnstone is that of labels - names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, "We Jews and Blacks" wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. It is a dramatic, whimsical, and literary work that also contains a number of Barnstone's poems, which offer a second view of an event, a crystallization of his thinking, both sorrowful and joyful. The book includes a dialogue with Yusef Komunyakaa and a small selection of his poems.
- ISBN10 0253219213
- ISBN13 9780253219213
- Publish Date 1 February 2007 (first published 1 May 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 September 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English