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Job guru Richard Fein, author of numerous interview books and articles, now offers his expertise to the over-55 set. According to a survey by the AARP, seven out of ten workers that are 45 and older plan to work during the retirement years. People are living longer than ever, and many are finding that retiring in their 50s or 60s leaves them feeling restless and may even leave them without enough money to maintain their accustomed lifestyle. For a variety of reasons, more and more people are finding themselves in the workplace at an advanced age and facing a new set of circumstances. The Baby Boomer's Guide to the New Workplace is an upbeat, yet realistic, book for people who plan to work during their senior years. It is a book about the reasons people work, the choices they make, what they enjoy, what they don't, and the techniques everyone needs to know to land the right job. Visit the author's Web site at www.RichardFein.com.

Over the course of a lifetime's worth of beautiful poems, as well as translations from Yiddish that read like beautiful poems in English, Richard Fein has created the song of himself and of his Brooklyn--Jewish world. It is a world preserved in lines that are a marvel of vigilant, always fascinated attention. In its sheer descriptive capacities, his verse is as open to radiant marvels and erotic candor as it is aware of the abrupt horrors of brute historical reality. Fein listens so closely and so deeply to the voices of filial memory that his Hebrew Bible poems speak to us in the same intimate and dramatic idiom as his family poems. This is poetry that in its undeviating focus of selfless attention enlarges our scope of human dignity and responsibility.

A culminating extraordinary book exploring the country of old age with candor beyond Yeats. DEAR YIDDISH is a startlingly brave and candid rendering of life in the shadow of death. "Sex is over and death is soon to come." It is not chilling; it is uplifting. The beauty of the language and perceptions make 'maturity' one with "excellence.' Or, as Yeats put it, "Bodily decrepitude is wisdom." It is a celebration of the poet's Jewish heritage, of the roots of his love of language, of the whole of his life in a nutshell, of the drop on a nostril that is the last moment of life, the last line of a poem. Like Donne in his shroud, in "Getting Ready," Fein lists the famous writers and the Yiddish poets and his dearest friends and loved ones and says if they can die, or know that they soon will die, "Why can't I, with my poems, get ready to die?" He will live forever in these poems. The book is an affirmation of the power of poems to keep us alive. Richard Fein's lyric genius is marked by one central searching endeavor: to bring English in earshot of its rhyme with Yiddish. It is the kind of necessary and forthright exploitation a serious poet delights in. And it starts when a curious boy on vacation in the Catskills looked way down into the stream Neversink and 'all he saw was Yiddish letters.' The poetry was writ in that childhood water, the cross-currency of pure recollection and intensely exacting concentration. And now this book of a lifetime, DEAR YIDDISH, which is also dear Yeats, and all of it Richard's way of translating himself into the magisterial American poet he has become.--George Kalogeris, author of Winthropos In a poem appropriately called "The Connection," near the beginning of his eloquent and moving new book, Richard Fein writes: 'The tender violence of recall/becomes a tripwire setting off/bits of memory ...' The Yiddish language itself and the Yiddish poetry Fein remembers and translates trigger that tripwire. The title poem of DEAR YIDDISH is a surprisingly erotic love poem to an entire language. But as Fein's readers have already come to know, all of his poems are love poems.--Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Who's on First? New and Selected Poems Poetry. Jewish Studies.

Poetry. LOSING IT is about growing old but the power of the poems suggests the opposite, finding it: the poignance of mature vision. As Edward Hirsch notes, "The modern Yiddish poets ('Glatshteyn, Sutzkever, Moyshe-Leyb-- / show me your letters, words, rhythms') are the spiritual guides to Richard Fein's fine new book, which has a kind of Jewish saudade--a bittersweet nostalgia not just for something gone, but also a yearning for what might have been. LOSING IT is a book that beautifully pinpoints its lost worlds."

Jewish Poetry Series. Yiddish and English. Bibliography: p. 213-215.

Using original research from archives, interviews with MPs and party officials, and first hand testimonies from grass roots activists, the authors go behind the scenes to name names, record the votes, and lay bare the machinations of those who led the Labour Party to electoral defeat in 1992.

Ghosts of family, of a Brooklyn boyhood, of the Yiddish language and the poets who wrote in it, and of Walt Whitman haunt Fein's poetry. ?'How can I be done with you?' asks Richard Fein of his ghosts, and in this book they are many. There are the ghosts of his family and his childhood in Brooklyn. Then there are the ghosts of the Yiddish language and the poets who wrote in it. The ghosts of those poets inhabit Fein's translations, adaptations, and what we might call his inspirations, Fein's own poems that turn pondering 'a dying language' into a lens through which he can see better hs own life. Hovering over all is the ghost of Walt Whitman, whose democratic syncretism, perambulation, and generosity of spirit are reflected throughout Fein's poetry. More than a book of the dead, however, Reversion shows us how, as Fein puts it, the past resides dormant within us, ready to be recast and live in a new creation. This is Richard Fein's book of life, and we will return, 'revert, ' to it often

How do you prepare for a job search? What are the 10 principles of interviewing? What comes after the initial interview? In his 11 years as a college placement director, Richard Fein has helped literally thousands of undergraduates identify and deal with all the elements involved in landing worthwhile employment. Here, he shares strategies that have proven successful and supports them with real-life examples.