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Author: David Jaffin

Dr. David Jaffin was born to a Jewish family in New York and studied History, Art History and Psychology at New York University, where he was awarded a PhD at the age of 24 he went to Europe and did the unthinkable: a mere 16 years after Auschwitz he married a German woman, became a Christian, and embarked on the study of theology. After graduating from Tübingen University, he became a Pastor in the Evangelilcal (i.e. Lutheran) Church, and then served as a minister for 20 years in Wurttemberg. After this he was granted freelance status in order to continue with his writing. He had already made himself a considerable reputation as a writer of sermons and religious texts, and he is now the author of dozens of prose books in German, including stories for children, as well as a large corpus of poetry in English.

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A Voiced Awakening
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A Voiced Awakening

Shearsman Books

Poetry. Another collection of delicate, short-lined lyrics by this poet-theologian, his sixth Shearsman book since returning to writing. David Jaffin is American, but lives in Bavaria. This book is co-published with St. Johannis Druckerei, Lahr, Ger...

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Always Now
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Always Now

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Poetry. "I was moved, deeply moved by David Jaffin's collections of verse, by their sensitivity, their loveliness, their honesty."—Chaim Potok

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Corona Poems
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Corona Poems

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Poetry. Proving once again that he is one of the world's most prolific poets, now that he is retirement, David Jaffin offers here his first collection of short lyric poems for 2021. Lockdown poems, in one sense, they range far afield however, from t...

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The Healing of a Broken World
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The Healing of a Broken World

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Poetry. Jewish Studies. The world's most prolific poet? Retirement agrees with David Jaffin, as he presents another volume of his trademark short lyrics.Published in association with Edition Wortschatz, Germany.

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Identity Cause
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Identity Cause

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Poetry. Proving once again that he is perhaps the world's busiest poet, now that he is in retirement, David Jaffin offers here his second collection of short lyric poems for 2018. There are many more to come.

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Intimacies of Sound
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Intimacies of Sound

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Poetry. "David Jaffin is a poet with his own particular manner of sensibility and with a method of construction issuing from his idiosyncratic preferences for manner of expression. This rightly implies that he is serious, inventive, and independent,...

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Into the Timeless Deep
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Into the Timeless Deep

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Poetry. "Poems in a tradition that is not European, not American, not (in many ways) Oriental, but Jaffinesque. There is no especial code to the unravelling of the poems, but that of commonplace, but intricate, human consideration. Jaffin's voice is...

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Jewel Sensed
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Jewel Sensed

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Poetry. The second of David Jaffin's 2015 titles, another 400 pages-plus of minimalist lyrics. As Chicago Review said of his recent LIGHT SOURCES and LANDING RIGHTS: "Decidedly prolific bite-sized, brief, crisply restrained and profoundly philosophi...

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Kaleidoscope
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Kaleidoscope

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Poetry. Proving once again that he is perhaps the world's busiest poet, now that he is in retirement, David Jaffin offers here his first collection of short lyric poems for 2019. There are many more to come.Published in association with Edition Wort...

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Labyrinthed
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Labyrinthed

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Poetry. "David Jaffin's work is consistently refreshing and innovating, his is a most welcome contemporary poetic voice. And his keen, sensitive observations make for precise, sensuous and elegant poetry. It is thus not surprising that he is also a ...

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Landing Rights
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Landing Rights

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Poetry. The first of Jaffin's books for 2014: another collection of his trademark spare lyrics.

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Light Paths
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Light Paths

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Poetry. "Jaffin's poetry is as 'modernist' as abstract painting while still poetry in the traditional sense, whose purpose is the verbalization of basic human experience and whose form derives from a serious exploration of language...it is remarkabl...

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Listening to Silence
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Listening to Silence

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Poetry. Another collection of Jaffin's trademark spare lyrics. The style does not change, but the intensity of his vision remains constant.

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Moon Flowers
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Moon Flowers

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Poetry. The world's most prolific poet? Retirement agrees with David Jaffin, as he presents another volume of his trademark short lyrics, his first, but probably not his last in 2017. Published in association with Edition Wortschatz, Germany.

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October-Cyprus Poems
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October-Cyprus Poems

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The indefatigable David Jaffin's latest opus see him exceed 1,000 pages for the year‚—and that's only the poems he chides to keep. The world's most prolific poet? Perhaps not, but he has to be close.Poetry.

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