J.J. Steinfeld, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org Literary Arts Journal Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:44:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 J.J. Steinfeld, Author at The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org 32 32 199531397 It Is Your Ninetieth Summer, You Tell Me https://hyacinthreview.org/j-j-steinfeld-it-is-your-ninetieth-summer-you-tell-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=j-j-steinfeld-it-is-your-ninetieth-summer-you-tell-me Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7503 We reach for the same poetry book by a young hotshot poet with an old man’s eye for sorrow. I hand you the thin volume as if I had attempted a theft and recoiled with remorse. It is your ninetieth summer you tell me, and I am as tall as your husband was who you…

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]]> 7503 A Life Of Books https://hyacinthreview.org/j-j-steinfeld-a-life-of-books/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=j-j-steinfeld-a-life-of-books Wed, 28 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7396 Shaun’s books were scattered about his apartment. He began to gather them, piling one after another against a wall in even stacks. Then he began to count, at first each book individually, then by twos and threes: 587. Books shipped from city to city. Possessions he once couldn’t bear to leave behind. Books even from…

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