Herb Brin: 6 books

What is the measure of man? In this extraordinary collection of poems, Herb Brin rages against injustice and oppression with deeply felt passion. “Not to the weak of art does artistry belong,” Brin declares in the opening line of this book. Herb brings to his poetry the same burning indignation...

Light, joyful poetry you will not find here. These are poems infused with passion, with pain, with indignation, and especially with anger, as Herb Brin sweeps through millennia of Jewish history, directing his fury at the persecutions of the Crusades, the Inquisition, the travesties of war and especially...

In this moving collection of poems, Herb Brin lyricized man’s basic humanity – and his all-too frequent inhumanity. Above all, Brin shines light on injustice, as he turns his eye to conflicts that roil across the expanse of history. “Where there is conflict, pray for conscience,” wrote Brin...

Songs of love, songs of war, songs of faith, and songs of spring. Here is an unusual collection of poems reflecting the dreams and sense of wonder of a gifted, sensitive Jewish poet who is able to convey the tenderness of man’s agonies and loves, his despairs and his hopes, his failings and dreams...

A moving collection of poems reflecting Herb Brin’s love of nature and his passion for the Jewish spirit. His verses are the cry, the laughter, the little sorrows and the eternal triumphs of a man – and of a people. Praise for Poems from the Rubio:“How a journalist, how an editor could also...

This memoir of Herb Brin reveals a truly unique American life, the story of a courageous journalist, publisher, and poet, who was a tireless fighter, both for his people and for justice. Born in 1915 to a poor Chicago family of immigrants from Poland and Russia, Herb became a gangland reporter in...