Wrecker’s Ball
by Merle Bachman
$14, paper
Merle Lyn Bachman grew up in Albany, New York. She is the granddaughter of Yiddish-speaking immigrants who fled the Ukraine and Romania and came to New York around 1912, where they tried (and failed) at chicken farming. A poet who delights in writing prose and exploring the arbitrary boundaries between these genres, Bachman has had poetry and other writing published in many journals since the early 1990s, including Talisman, Chain, ABACUS, Five Fingers Review, Tupelo Quarterly and Paideuma. She has also published two poetry chapbooks, two full-length poetry books, and one book (with co-editor Anthony Rudolf, in London) featuring the selected poems of Scottish-Jewish poet A. C. Jacobs. Her latest book is a hybrid-genre memoir, Thank You for Being: A Poet’s Memoir of Home.
Merle Lyn Bachman grew up in Albany, New York. She is the granddaughter of Yiddish-speaking immigrants who fled the Ukraine and Romania and came to New York around 1912, where they tried (and failed) at chicken farming. A poet who delights in writing prose and exploring the arbitrary boundaries between these genres, Bachman has had poetry and other writing published in many journals since the early 1990s, including Talisman, Chain, ABACUS, Five Fingers Review, Tupelo Quarterly and Paideuma. She has also published two poetry chapbooks, two full-length poetry books, and one book (with co-editor Anthony Rudolf, in London) featuring the selected poems of Scottish-Jewish poet A. C. Jacobs. Her latest book is a hybrid-genre memoir, Thank You for Being: A Poet’s Memoir of Home.
On the academic side, Bachman earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College in Oakland, California and a PhD in English at the University at Albany (State University of New York). Her dissertation, a combination of literary criticism, translation of Yiddish poetry, and memoir, was later published by Syracuse University Press as Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature.
On the academic side, Bachman earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College in Oakland, California and a PhD in English at the University at Albany (State University of New York). Her dissertation, a combination of literary criticism, translation of Yiddish poetry, and memoir, was later published by Syracuse University Press as Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature.
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