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From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch: The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler Sale Books opting instead for connections thatTranslated by Maia Evrona The first Yiddish English bilingual edition of one of Yiddish literatures most vital post war poets. Born in the Ukrainian town of Haysin and raised in Crimea, Yosef Kerler was perhaps the only Yiddish poet to publish poetry written in the gulag. He would later become one of the first prominent refuseniks. This collection proves strikingly timely, with the poets complicated relationship to his cradle land echoing throughout,