* 34 Glenda Abramson “beat” and “pound” an echo of the blacksmith imagery . Not only memory but war itself is the anvil on which the men are tempered, beaten, and hammered . Conclusion ‘With My God’ reveals Grinberg as a self - created prophet, forging himself out of Jewish history and culture, with a mission for his people ; as a visionary poet who suffers for his art through both form and content, memory, experience, and imagination constituting the ore with which he struggles ; as a traumatized man who is unable to allow his memory to blaze forth . The voice revealed within the wound in his poetry suffers primarily from repressed memory, from which, paradoxically, he does not wish to be entirely free . In a different context, that of Jewish history, but using the crucial words from ‘With My God’ such as ḥitukh ( cleft, gorge, gash ) , “fire,” “crack,” “cut,” and “wound,” Grinberg wrote : נִכְנַסְתִּי לָאָרֶץ כְּמוֹלְתוֹךְ כִּבְשָׁן, לְהוֹסִיף עוֹד אֵשׁ עַל הָאֵשׁ הָאוֹכֶלֶת . לְהוֹס...
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