Marcia Falk is a widely published poet and translator of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry. Her most recent publications include a groundbreaking new prayer book, The Book of Blessings (1996), and a volume of translations of the modern mystic poet Zelda, The Spectacular Difference (2004).

"An exceptional poetic job. Marcia Falk has great power in her language." - Isaac Bashevis Singer; "Insightful and inspired... Falk's Song of Songs has a lasting life ahead of it in lovers' laps, whether those lovers are lovers of the literature of the Bible, or lovers of the clear sound of an American poet in intimate embrace with a tradition, or simply lovers." - Cynthia Ozick; "Marcia Falk's translation is a beautiful and sensual poem in its own right... one of the great classics of the art of translation." - Adrienne Rich"