“Writing poetry grounded me through the grief,” Wax says. The final-and longest-poem of the collection, “Gleanings from the Field,” was written all those years ago Wax, however, wrote nearly all of the other poems over the past three-and-a-half years following her brother Howard’s death by suicide. Now, 35 years after that first poetry award and reading, Wax’s first book of poetry, Walking the Labyrinth, will be published. Instead, she became a rabbi, wrote sermons, published essays, and took a lot of memoir and fiction writing classes. In her early 20’s, she feared both the loss of “the muse” and not having a reliable income.
Rabbi Pamela Wax’s first volume of poetry confronts the grief of losing a loved oneĪfter winning a poetry award and appearing at a 1986 poetry event with Adrienne Rich and Ellen Bass in Santa Cruz, CA, Pam Wax remembers getting scared about the possibility of being a poet.
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