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FROM A NEW MEMOIR: “Naomi”
ON NAOMI I’m Naomi and this part will be mine as Matt is uncomfortable with it after all these decades because what he did was to blame the victim: me. When I met him I was 24 and in a loose relationship with a pharmacist in Queens. I was gorgeous, no doubt about it. I slithered into pants as I did not have much of an ass, and I had a small chest, but I was wide in the beam and had a stunning face, or so I heard from many men at the time. How can…
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A CHAPTER FROM A NEW MEMOIR IN THE MAKING
AN ABUNDANCE OF AWARENESS When I consider the amount of time I have lived and the abundance of memories I have accrued, I think of all that history that will vanish when I disappear. Which is the greater loss, the absence of me or the absence of all I have experienced? I vote against me. I choose for office the history I have made. I cannot capture Woodstock in words. ( I cannot describe in words the last strong feeling I had.) I can only glimpse the times in Woodstock indirectly, through a glass darkly. Whatever awareness I…
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ANECDOTES
It’s been 8 months since I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust was published. During that time I was part of a blog tour, queried at least 1,000 individuals, organizations, associations, museums and schools of Jewish studies. I spread the word on FACEBOOK and Linkedin; contacted personal friends and acquaintances. I donate 10 books as a giveaway on Goodreads on a monthly basis, paying for the books out of my pocket, not including the mailing costs to Canada, Great Britain, Australia, France, and Israel. I handed out many copies for reviews and some as gifts to pique interest. I invested at…
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Imaginative Renderings does in fact allow great insight. Books like this must continue to be…
Title: “I Truly Lament Working Through the Holocaust” Author: Mathias B. Freese Publisher: Wheatmark ISBN #978-1-62787-161-7 Reviewed by F.T. Donereau for RebeccasReads (1/15) Amazon Headline: Living Art Rendering Unimaginable History Amazon Rating: 5 Stars In the preface to his new book, “I Truly Lament Working Through the Holocaust” Mathias B. Freese declares himself a failure. He also states that all artists who struggle with the Holocaust must begin with the acceptance of failure. I fully understand his point: the Holocaust as a living horror is too much to be rendered fully, in its full deviance, by any artist. This is…