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David Cooper is a widely published poet, translator, journalist, and book reviewer. He covers the NY Jewish culture beat for examiner.com and reviews books for New York Journal of Books.

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Near death, explained

Sunday, Apr 22, 2012 7:34AM / Standard Entry / Members only

‎"Studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality that normally is not accessible to our senses and awareness..." This resembles a traditional Jewish belief that in the first week after burial the soul of the deceased is in a confused state and wanders back and forth between the burial plot and his or her most recent place of residence.

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See my homepage: davidfcooper.com My co-author Beth Rosenberg and I are writing I Am My Beloved's, a collection of interviews and photographs of Jewish-American couples that explores the intersection of each couple's identities as a couple and as Jews and will reflect the diversity of the Jewish-American community. My translation of Israeli poet Rachel Eshed's book Little Promises is published in a bilingual edition by Mayapple Press. In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. My translation of one of the poems in Little Promises was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Novelist Tsipi Keller says , "It is hard to speak of Rachel Eshed's poetry without mentioning 'fire' : her poems virtually burn on the page, and David Cooper's renditions not only do justice to the the original but magnify its richness." Download pdf files of my two poetry collections, Glued To The Sky and JFK: Lines of Fire (PulpBits, 2003) on my website. I also cover the NY Jewish Culture beat for examiner.com and review books for New York Journal of Books.
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