Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
Miriam Sagan and Joan Logghe, eds., Sherman Asher Publishing, 1998
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Finalist, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award

This collection blends the history, celebrations, and reconciliation of ancient Jewish traditions with life in New Mexico. The circle of the Jewish year is saturated by the New Mexico experience as tashlich is performed in a precious desert river, and Passover coincides with Good Friday pilgrims making a holy journey to the Santuario de Chimayo.
At root these are poems of faith—in the beauty of the desert, in the survival of tradition and memory, and ultimately in the ability of language to contain and express experience. Includes work by Marjorie Agosín, Robin Becker, Yehudis Fishman, Gene Frumkin, Natalie Goldberg, Judyth Hill, Joan Logghe, Consuelo Luz, Carol Moldaw, Judith Rafaela, and Miriam Sagan.