Chana Bloch, the author of award-winning books of poetry, translation, and scholarship, is Professor Emerita of English at Mills College, where she taught for over thirty years and directed the Creative Writing Program. Bloch is co-translator of The Song of Songs, and of poets, Yehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch.

Other poems by Chana Bloch in Verse Daily:
October 11, 2009:   "Veni Vidi" "The world / is about to be created...."

Books by Chana Bloch:

Other poems on the web by Chana Bloch:
Twenty poems
Twelve poems
Two poems
"Potato Eaters"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems

Chana Bloch's Website.

Chana Bloch According to Wikipedia.

About Swimming in the Rain:

"Chana Bloch is writing the best poems of her life. Death is the Great Master hovering in the distance, but this pleasure-loving poet will not be deterred. Chana Bloch is like a Japanese potter mending the cracked and dinged pottery of experience with gold powder sprinkled from her fingers."
—Henri Cole