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    Justice, Justice: Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man
    Justice, Justice: Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man
    Justice, Justice: Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man
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    Justice, Justice: Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man

    By Herb Brin

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    What is the measure of man? In this extraordinary collection of poems, Herb Brin rages against injustice and oppression with deeply felt passion. “Not to the weak of art does artistry belong,” Brin declares in the opening line of this book. Herb brings to his poetry the same burning indignation against bigot and tyrant, the same compassion for the persecuted as he did in his widely-quoted newspaper columns. “Justice, Justice Shalt Thou Pursue...” were the words Herb Brin inscribed above the masthead of Heritage, the Southern California newspaper he published for several decades. “His verses are the cry, the laughter, the little sorrows and the eternal triumphs of a man – and of a people,” writes Tom Tugend.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHerb Brin
    Release dateAug 17, 2012
    ISBN9781476449708
    Justice, Justice: Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man
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    Herb Brin

    Herb Brin (1915 – 2003) was born and raised in Chicago. Herb was an investigative reporter for the City News Bureau and Los Angeles Times, a world-recognized poet, and pioneering Jewish journalist. He founded the Heritage, a chain of Jewish community newspapers spanning southern California, where he served as editor, publisher and columnist. His books include: Conflicts, My Spanish Years, Wild Flowers, Nobody Died Laughing, Poems from the Rubio, Ich bin Ein Jude, and Justice, Justice. He is survived by three sons, Stan, David and Dan.

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      Justice, Justice - Herb Brin

      Justice, Justice

      Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man

      By Herb Brin

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012

      Originally published by Jonathan David Publishers

      1967

      ***

      To a child somewhere….

      ***

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Challenge

      Measures of the Man

      And a Little Child

      On the Plaza of Santa Domingo

      Bread’s a Deadly Game

      Felice Año Nuevo 1967

      Ballad of a City

      Honky Tonk

      Man’s Whims

      Two Signs

      Crimson Flows the Rhine

      The Brown Danube

      Chelm

      Cinders and Coal

      A Song of Magic

      Children of Brown

      The Left Bank

      Late is the Hour

      Refractions

      Canto

      It Wasn’t I

      The Sun Came Up

      The Last Candle

      Love

      Standards

      The Monument

      A Child Was Killed

      Unfulfillment

      My Bacchanal

      Psalm

      Encounter

      Chippy

      Half Peace

      Theft

      Casualty Lists

      Lost Thoughts

      Flower and Thorn

      Just One

      Shalom

      About the Author

      ***

      Introduction

      From the Jacket copy from Justice, Justice

      When the first issue of Heritage rolled off the presses, Herb Brin inscribed above the masthead of his fledgling newspaper the words, "Justice, Justice Shalt Thou Pursue…"

      The prophet’s noble admonition has been a hot, living reality to Brin, translated into action every week on the editorial pages of his four California newspapers.

      The pursuit of justice has taken him from the slums of Los Angeles to the crematoriums of Auschwitz, from international summit conferences to the Eichmann trial, from the silent Jews of Moscow to the 1967 battlefields of Israel.

      It is therefore particularly fitting that Brin has taken his newspaper’s guide motto as the title of his second collection of poems.

      While his widely acclaimed first book, Wild Flowers, was an intensely personal and introspective statement, Justice, Justice broadens his involvement by holding up a mirror to the condition of mankind and the rapacities of government.

      "Not to the weak

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