Cloud-Beam Medley

About the Book

Cloud-Beam Medley is Barbara Hantman’s fifth book of verse. It is divided into seven chapters that capture diverse thematic categories: “Mosaic Memories,” “Hats Off: In Tribute,” “From Burden to Bliss,” “Earth’s Glow,” “Nesting,” “Chuckle and Whimsy” and “The World — So Much With Us!” Spanish and Hebrew are represented with a smattering of bilingual poems. The author has tapped her Jewish roots, outstanding men and women (both famous and in her personal circle), awareness of obstacle and triumph, and the beauty and comforts of nature, family life and humor. The book concludes on a serious note, with what Unamuno dubbed the “tragic sense of life.”

About the Author

Barbara Hantman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Queens College, City University of New York, with a Master's Degree in the Teaching of English from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is Fresh Meadows Poets ' Corresponding Secretary , and a monthly featured reader and lecturer at the New York Poetry Forum . Barbara has served a generation of NYC high school students, and is proud that her seven full-length books of verse attest to her ability to versify in Spanish and Hebrew, as well as the beloved English tongue.