Jewish Cemetery, Prague

Abstract

Jewish Cemetery, Prague Kathleen Driskell (bio) I learned when I visitedthe Jewish cemetery in Prague,that the dead were relegatedto one plot behind their synagogue,so small that layering graves becamethe only way to give way for the new dead; consequently, in that graveyardthe ground provides no mossy idyll.All appears to be erupting, the headstones,wrecked teeth, as if dead are strugglingto escape their coffins, as if the deadhave learned that for somethere is no place to be forgotten. [End Page 29] Kathleen Driskell Kathleen Driskell is the Chair of Spalding University's School of Creative and Professional Writing, home of the nationally distinguished low-residency MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky. She's the author of the poetry collections Blue Etiquette: Poems, a finalist for the Weatherford Award; Next Door to the Dead, a Kentucky Voices selection by the University Press of Kentucky and winner of the 2018 Judy Gaines Young Book Award; Seed Across Snow, a Poetry Foundation national bestseller; Laughing Sickness, and Peck and Pock: A Graphic Poem. Copyright © 2022 Berea College ...