Books by Richard Chess

Tekiah

(1994, 2002)

"Tekiah will amaze, challenge and console all those who seek in poetry the transfiguring articulation of our darkest problems." —Alan Shapiro

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Chair in the Desert

(2000)

"Here is the language of life—life conditioned, bound, tangled, yet illumined and clarified by a transcendent Eye. One reads these shiningly honest lines and feels their blessing." —Shirley Kaufman

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Third Temple

(2007)

"Playful and erudite, irreverent and prayerful, Rick Chess's new poems speak to post-modern exile, taking up the timeless Jewish themes of freedom and slavery." —Robin Becker

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Anthologies

Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 (2005)

The Sacred Place, ed. by W. Scott Olson and Scott Cairns (2002)

Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English (2000)

The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing (1998)