Background
Lefcowitz, Barbara Freedgood was born on January 15, 1935 in New York City.
(Barbara F. Lefcowitz's fourth poetry collection was descr...)
Barbara F. Lefcowitz's fourth poetry collection was described by William Carpenter as follows: "These pages are filled with a brilliant poetry of dark surprise." Poems range from invocations of such everyday objects as microwave ovens and fans to Freud's Couch, Edward Hopper, and the crack in a Brooklyn street. One long poem, "For Mirjam Lenka," is dedicated to a young holocaust victim from Prague; it has been reprinted several times, including a broadside commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is probably Lefcowitz's best known poem to date. Original wood engraving on cover by noted artist Rosemary Feit Covey.
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(Barbara F. Lefcowitz's third poetry collection, winner of...)
Barbara F. Lefcowitz's third poetry collection, winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House award, was described by one reviewer as"wise, witty, dramatic, daring" (The Washington Review); the reviewer from Choice noted that "Lefcowitz moves deftly between dream and reality and imagination." Poems touch upon memory, forgetting, travels to the Balkans, fairy tales, the NY Yankees, and a poetic journal of her stay at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Two popular poems are "Menopausal Baseball," a witty yet poignant depiction of menopause as a metaphor, and "My Poetry Retirement Dinner," which ironically concludes that such an event is a sheer impossibility.
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(Lefcowitz's first published novel is set in New York City...)
Lefcowitz's first published novel is set in New York City from 1910 to the brink of World War 11. Aside from the three main characters-- the haunted upper-class rebel Lucy Whittaker, the self-proclaimed prophet and communist-idealist David Grossbart, who dies in Spain after volunteering with the Lincoln Brigade, and Lucy's wonderfully crazy Aunt Dru--presences include Nazi spies, Greenwich Village luminaries, FDR, Arturo Toscanini, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. . .As reviewer Colin Sargent said, "From its comic beginnings to its elegant conclusion, Lucy Whittaker's long dance from innocence to experience is rendered with a superb grace and wit. . ."
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Lefcowitz, Barbara Freedgood was born on January 15, 1935 in New York City.
Bachelor, Smith College, 1956. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University Maryland, 1970.
Instructor English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1962-1964; instructor English, American U., Washington, 1965-1967; Professor of English, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland., since 1971.
(Lefcowitz's first published novel is set in New York City...)
(Barbara F. Lefcowitz's fourth poetry collection was descr...)
(Barbara F. Lefcowitz's third poetry collection, winner of...)
Children: Marjorie, Eric.