God Is a Tree: and Other Middle-Aged Prayers

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Poetry. Esther Cohen writes with humor and joy and lots of energy. You can’t help but smile when you encounter her delightful images. In her title poem, for example, you learn that she once wrote a poem and ‘God Is a Tree’ was the title. / Louis Savitsky didn’t like it./ He asked why / I had the chutzpah / to believe I knew. / A few years later, Louis’s daughter / became a Scientologist. It is those seemingly unrelated comments, presented with a straight face, that startle and amuse as they challenge one’s thinking. These poems have a definite Jewish tone to them, but certainly one doesn’t need to be Jewish in order to appreciate them.