Reviews
Recuperating a Legacy: 32 Poems/ 32 Poemas by Hyam Plutzik
- By Aitor Bouso Gavín
Hyam Plutzik's 32 Poems/ 32 Poemas (Suburbano Ediciones, 2022)
32 Poems/ 32 Poemas (2021) is a fully bilingual (Spanish and English) collection of selected poems by the twentieth-century American poet Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962). The three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents from Belarus. Plutzik, who was a Professor of English at the University of Rochester until his premature death in 1962, grew up in a non-anglophone household, where Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish were the languages spoken. Plutzik did not learn English until he attended grammar school in a schoolhouse in Connecticut. His...