Description: Wide-ranging and poignant reflections on literature, art, science, and memory.
Brief description: Myra Sklarew is Professor Emerita of Literature at American University and the author of many books, including Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish Stories, Essays, Poems, also published by SUNY Press. She is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Council Award in Poetry, the Di Castagnola Award, and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award.
Review Quotes:
"Myra Sklarew is a beautiful writer. The brilliance of her perceptions and her artful rendering of her world in all of its strangeness and mystical garb make this book a testimony to the mind and sensibility of an extraordinary woman with a far-ranging intellect." -- Charlotte Goodman, Professor Emerita of English, Skidmore College
"The author's personality, as it emerges in these various writings, is extremely appealing and sympathetic. She is searching, does not shrink from self-revelation, is sensitive to the pain of the world, and, overall, is supremely perceptive and intelligent in what she has to say." -- Judith R. Baskin, editor of Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing