poems [by Howard Schwartz] from "Breathing in the Dark": "First Eve," "Fiery Serpents" and "Angel of Losses." The first piece expands the narrative of the Lilith story--Adam's rejected first wife, a cross between femme fatale and a she-devil. "Fiery Serpents" is Schwartz's insightful midrash on a puzzling Biblical passage. Finally, the last poem is a riff on a Rabbi Nachman's vignette on Yodea, the angel of losses--less an angel than a human's guilty consciousness.from Forward: The Arty Semite: Poetic Resources of Jewish Folklore: Three Works by Howard Schwartz
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