the poet Moyshe Leyb Halpern. Halpern, like the social realists, was also interested in social justice, but his style and tone is much more modernist. Indeed, Halpern was often criticized for his "coarse" writing, according to scholar Julian Levinson. [Yossel] Birstein echoes the alienation of the modernist in the following poem, both musical and suspenseful, which morphs from the Gothic into personal angst:
A Visitor On My Doorstep
Translated by Leigh Fetter
from Zeek: The Neglected Poetry of Yossel Birstein
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