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March 19th, 2009

Robin Romm: The Last Book I Loved, The Fixer

images-32A couple of years ago I went totally bananas over The Fixer by Bernard Malamud. The story: Yakov, a Jewish man living in Russia in the early 1900s, is falsely accused of killing a Christian child. The book centers on Yakov’s time in prison and quickly becomes one of the most beautiful meditations on suffering that I have ever read.

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January 29th, 2009

On Teaching Poetry to Women in Prison

I was nineteen.  Prison seemed sexy and foreign—as did most forbidden things.  …more

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December 10th, 2008

Rumpus Original – On Teaching Poetry To Women In Prison

I was nineteen.  Prison seemed sexy and foreign—as did most forbidden things.  Maybe I wanted to seem tough.  Maybe I needed something to differentiate me from all the other over-achieving, world-traveled students at the university I attended.  Maybe I felt I had something to give. …more

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Robin Romm is the author of The Mother Garden and the memoir The Mercy Papers.

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