The book’s covers are at once front and back, the beginning and the end of a cyclical reading, inviting us to read and re-read again.Įisenstein’s portraits for Correspondences are of those who inhabited Isaiah Michaels’s inner landscape: Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Osip Mandelstam, Albert Einstein and others. It is printed “accordion-style” with Michaels’s book-length poem unfolding on one side of the book’s pages as Eisenstein’s stirring portrait sequence of twentieth-century poets, intellectuals, and political activists juxtapose the poem on the other. By Anne Michaels (Author) and Bernice Eisenstein (Illustrator)Ĭorrespondences, the collaborative work between poet and novelist Anne Michaels and writer and artist Bernice Eisenstein, is a beautifully crafted elegy to Michaels’s father, Isaiah, and an intriguing art object.
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