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Nadya
Aisenberg was writing on the social implications of
forgiveness in literature at the time of her sudden death
in April 1999. This subject had occupied her for over a
decade. Through narrative and poetry, feminism and pacifism,
Aisenberg believed that forgiveness was the key to understanding
that often elusive mystery that is ourselves. Possessing
a double talent, for creative and theoretical writing, Nadya
published poetry and criticism in nearly equal parts. 'Before
We Were Strangers', 'Leaving Eden', and this final collection,
Measures, collect poems that describe a search for
a kind of peace in exotic settings all over the world and
at home, in the solitary and communal, combining the languages
of natural and social science, philosophy and art. A committed
feminist, she published two books on the subject of feminism,
'Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove' (co-authored
with Mona Harrington) and 'Ordinary Heroines: Transforming
the Male Myth'. She also published 'A Common Spring: Crime
Novel and Classic' and 'We Animals: Poems of Our World'
(Sierra Club Books). Her book of poetry, 'Leaving Eden',
won the Bruce P. Rossley Award in 1995.
About
the Author
 Nadya
Aisenberg was former Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's
Studies at Brandeis University. Over the years, she was
also a teacher of English at Tufts University, Wellesley
College, and the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
In the 1980s, she co-founded Rowan Tree Press, which published
30 titles. She was also a co-founder of the Cambridge Alliance
of Independent Scholars and on the Board of Directors of
the Writers' Room of Boston. Born in New York City, she
graduated from Bennington College and earned a doctorate
in English literature at the University of Wisconsin. She
was a frequent contributor to literary journals such as
Ploughshares, Angi, Poetry and The Southern Review. She
is the author of the monograph, 'I Fall Upwards: Images
of Women and Aging in Contemporary Women's Poetry', published
by the National Policy and Resource Center on Women and
Aging, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University , Autumn
1997.
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