Justice, Justice: Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man
By Herb Brin
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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 against bigot and tyrant, the same compassion for the persecuted as he did in his widely-quoted newspaper columns. “Justice, Justice Shalt Thou Pursue...” were the words Herb Brin inscribed above the masthead of Heritage, the Southern California newspaper he published for several decades. “His verses are the cry, the laughter, the little sorrows and the eternal triumphs of a man – and of a people,” writes Tom Tugend.
Herb Brin
Herb Brin (1915 – 2003) was born and raised in Chicago. Herb was an investigative reporter for the City News Bureau and Los Angeles Times, a world-recognized poet, and pioneering Jewish journalist. He founded the Heritage, a chain of Jewish community newspapers spanning southern California, where he served as editor, publisher and columnist. His books include: Conflicts, My Spanish Years, Wild Flowers, Nobody Died Laughing, Poems from the Rubio, Ich bin Ein Jude, and Justice, Justice. He is survived by three sons, Stan, David and Dan.
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Justice, Justice - Herb Brin
Justice, Justice
Poems Reflecting the Measures of Man
By Herb Brin
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012
Originally published by Jonathan David Publishers
1967
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To a child somewhere….
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Challenge
Measures of the Man
And a Little Child
On the Plaza of Santa Domingo
Bread’s a Deadly Game
Felice Año Nuevo 1967
Ballad of a City
Honky Tonk
Man’s Whims
Two Signs
Crimson Flows the Rhine
The Brown Danube
Chelm
Cinders and Coal
A Song of Magic
Children of Brown
The Left Bank
Late is the Hour
Refractions
Canto
It Wasn’t I
The Sun Came Up
The Last Candle
Love
Standards
The Monument
A Child Was Killed
Unfulfillment
My Bacchanal
Psalm
Encounter
Chippy
Half Peace
Theft
Casualty Lists
Lost Thoughts
Flower and Thorn
Just One
Shalom
About the Author
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Introduction
From the Jacket copy from Justice, Justice
When the first issue of Heritage rolled off the presses, Herb Brin inscribed above the masthead of his fledgling newspaper the words, "Justice, Justice Shalt Thou Pursue…"
The prophet’s noble admonition has been a hot, living reality to Brin, translated into action every week on the editorial pages of his four California newspapers.
The pursuit of justice has taken him from the slums of Los Angeles to the crematoriums of Auschwitz, from international summit conferences to the Eichmann trial, from the silent Jews of Moscow to the 1967 battlefields of Israel.
It is therefore particularly fitting that Brin has taken his newspaper’s guide motto as the title of his second collection of poems.
While his widely acclaimed first book, Wild Flowers, was an intensely personal and introspective statement, Justice, Justice broadens his involvement by holding up a mirror to the condition of mankind and the rapacities of government.
"Not to the weak