shel krakofsky

 The title poem, STANLEY CUP SEDER has been translated and anthologized internationally.Shel Krakofsky uses his accessible and lyrical voice to create memorable verse that merges the sacred with the secular from the streets of Jerusalem to the fields of Yankee Stadium with the rhythms of Mexico along the way. As Canada's Baseball Poet, his work opened and is included in our Baseball Hall Of Fame. Krakofsky has also twice received the National Jewish Book Prize (poetry) and Okanagan Fiction Awards.  This collection of new and selected poems, includes touching and revealing remembrances of poets Harold Heft and Irving Layton.                            

POETRY CANADA- " Stunning. Shel Krakofsky is an important poet. When a Krakofsky poem stops, there can be a gamut of emotions - or - your head gets snapped through the windshield. "