Rod Jellema, professor of English emertius at the University of Maryland, has been writing poetry for forty years. This new volume constitutes a selective harvest of his effort. Forty-nine of the poems are new. Also new is a section consisting of translations from modern Hebrew by Moshe Dor and Jellema. The task of choosing could not have been easy. Jellema has left the foothills of his poetic energy behind as he wended his way up and through the trails of…
Steven J. Van Der WeeleMarch 1, 2011