[7] The Inzikhist credo rejected metered verse and declared that non-Jewish themes were a valid topic for Yiddish poetry.
Glatstein's first book, titled under his own name, established him as the most daring and experimental of Yiddish poets in terms of form and style, as well as highly skillful in verbal manipulation of free verse poetry.
He traveled to Lublin in 1934 to attend his mother's funeral and this trip gave him insight into the growing possibility of war in Europe.
[4] After this trip, his writings returned to Jewish themes and he wrote pre-Holocaust works that eerily foreshadowed coming events.
[6] He won acclaim as an outstanding figure of mid-20th-century American Yiddish literature only later in life, winning the Louis Lamed Prize in 1940 for his works of prose, and again in 1956 for a volume of collected poems titled From All My Toil.