{"id":1007,"date":"2007-10-25T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2008-01-19T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:11:28","slug":"gershon-hepner-poet-physician-scholar-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Survivor Gershon Walter Hepner – Poet, Physician, Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

On PoemHunter.com, Dr. Hepner (born May 5, 1938 in Leipzig, Germany, and has lived in LA for 30 years) writes<\/a>: "I am a physician educated in England and living in LA. I am married to a brilliant poet, Linda, and a father of four children who are all above average, In addition I am a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, and have written a book due to be published in the summer of 2007, called Legal Friction: Interplay between Biblical Laws and Narratives. I am collecting a selection of my biblical poems that I hope to publish at the end of 2007 if I can find the time."<\/p>\n

Hepner published a poem here<\/a> about the late painter R. B. Kitaj.<\/p>\n

Hepner writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

We need to find the wrong, wrong notes,
\nregardless what the intellect
\ndeclares, and sow our wild, wild oats
\ninspired by the incorrect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The good doctor posted this wish list to his Amazon.com profile, updated 9\/30\/007<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n
    \n
  1. Searching for Meaning in Midrash: Lessons for Everyday Living<\/a> by Michael Katz<\/li>\n
  2. The Covenanted Self<\/a> by Walter Brueggemann<\/li>\n
  3. How Do We Know This?: Midrash and the Fragmentation of Mdoern Judaism (Suny Series in Judaica : Hermeneutics, Mysticism and Religion)<\/a> by Jay M. Harris<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Dr. Hepner writes this review on Amazon.com<\/a>: "Jacob Milgrom’s three part commentary of Leviticus cannot be commended highly enough. Not only does not contain Milgrom’s extraordinary insights into this book but it also covers all the literature so comprehensively that the book renders all other commentaries of Leviticus redundant and obsolete. Never before in has a single man been able to revise our opinion regarding a book of the Pentateuch as radically and as convincingly as Jacob Milgrom."<\/p>\n

    Here’s his poem on Walter Benjamin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    Walter Benjamin became a Marxist only when
    \nhe fell in love with one; he chose his path,
    \nas do so many interesting, intellectual men,
    \nbecause of Cupid—go and do the math. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Dr. Hepner wrote to the New York Times Dec. 4, 1998<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    To the Editor:<\/p>\n

    Donald C. Smaltz, the independent prosecutor in the case against Mike Espy, the former Agriculture Secretary, has said that although he spent millions of dollars, it was well worthwhile (front page, Dec. 3).<\/p>\n

    Worthwhile for whom? The Justice Department, perhaps, which is running amok in its prosecutorial zeal?<\/p>\n

    Might an apology from Mr. Smaltz to Mr. Espy have been more appropriate?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Here’s his Jan. 27, 2006 poem "Uplifting"<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    Wrapped in a gorgeous gown that clung
    \nto parts of her that were primordial,
    \nrevealing halves of breasts that hung
    \nsuspended between chords that cordial
    \naccompaniment enhanced, she played
    \nas though she was the soloist.
    \nNo quartet rained on her parade,
    \nwith her you merely coexist,
    \nfor she’s the diva on which eyes
    \nare focused, while the ears are drifting.
    \nExperiences like these surprise
    \nthose men who don’t find breasts uplifting.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    He writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    “Let’s seize foxes that destroy
    \nvineyards, ” say the ripe young maids,
    \neach one anxious to enjoy
    \nboys they call in serenades.
    \nAfter grazing among lilies,
    \nwhen the shadows tend to flee,
    \nloving maidens turn like fillies,
    \non the mountain fancy free,
    \nbut at nighttime they start pining
    \nfor the lover they can’t find.
    \n“Is he dining now or wining? ”
    \nis the question in their mind.
    \nRound the city they all wander,
    \nwatchmen try to look away,
    \ntill the one of whom they’re fonder
    \nfar more than the king can say
    \nlets them catch him, and then take him
    \nto the house of their conceiver;
    \nhe must stay there, for they’ll make him,
    \nAdam sleeping next to Eva.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    The "gauntlet of festivities<\/a>."<\/p>\n

    The people whom I always meet
    \nat weddings and at mitzvah bars
    \nare those with whom it’s not a treat
    \nto be with. I don’t ask for stars
    \nof stage and screen, celebrities
    \nlike presidents and CEO’s,
    \nto make to me like Hebrides
    \nan overture, but why must I
    \nspend time at all festivities
    \nwith people for whom I don’t care,
    \nto learn about proclivities
    \nthat thankfully I do not share.
    \nTo run the gauntlet like a cat
    \nthat’s lived too long has been my doom;
    \nI won’t have problems like this at
    \nmy funeral, I must assume.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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