When you hear the word Jewish, eroticism usually doesn’t come to mind.
Celia Dropkin writes consistently of unrequited love, loneliness, erotic desires – even unbridled violence towards men who have disappointed her, leaving the reader wondering – did this housewife and mother of 5, live a double life – or were her poems fictitious and imaginative?
Long hidden, recently uncovered and translated from Yiddish, this is a story that literally burns off the page.
This documentary tells the story of Celia Dropkin’s early life and literary influences in Russia; her rise to prominence in New York; her struggles to be acknowledged for her art by the male critics of the day; her marriage to her husband Shmaye (Samuel) and her suspected affairs; the dramatic stories behind some of her greatest writing.