Tell it to the Rabbis Author:Stephen Kessler Moving through a great range of moods and modes over twenty-four years of writing, yet unified by an unmistakable voice-lyrical, colloquial, ardent, irreverent-Tell It to the Rabbis and other poems 1977-2000 is a generous revelation of Stephen Kessler's "heteroformalist" poetics. From the erotic to the satiric, the surreal to the prosaic, the jo... more »urnalistic to the intimate, the sentimental to the cynical, the epigrammatic to the incantatory, the author's versatility, passion, wit and imagination are alive on every page. "Kessler's style," critic Valerie Ross wrote of his previous collection, After Modigliani, "spans a remarkable breadth of paradoxical perspectives: He is an epicure and a perfectionist, a social critic and a romantic visionary, a postmodern philosopher and a street musician singing the eternal songs of the human soul." Three books in one, this companion volume shows the continuing evolution of a spirited poet in his prime.« less