About this book
Three books of our newest volumes of poetry, at one low price.
There is No Place Without You
Maya Bernstein’s debut volume presents poems rigorously composed and delicately honed. It reveals the sensitive spirit and sharp mind of a mature speaker exploring the gaping space between the infinitude of the divine and the finite nature of human existence.
Authentic and honest, spanning the secular and the sacred, these poems challenge and speak truth to our fears and joys, navigating the complex intimacy and distance we experience as humans striving to connect to ourselves, one another, and to the forces that act upon us in the world.
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A Personal Engagement with the Weekly Torah Portion in Poems and Pictures
“The Talmud teaches that the Torah was given in black fire on white fire. This collection of poetry and art by contemporary Jewish women illuminates the white fire of the Torah — the ancient and modern literary interpretations that carve out the negative space of the Torah’s letters so that they dance before us as joyously as when they were given in fire on Sinai.”
—Ilana Kurshan, author of If All the Seas Were Ink
Book of Failed Salvation
In BOOK OF FAILED SALVATION, her second collection, poet and rabbi-in-training Julia Knobloch chronicles a relationship that spanned continents before coming to an end. In these poems, complicated Jewish histories intertwine with a yearning for consolation, while prophets dance and cypresses tower into the sky. Knobloch’s exploration of loneliness resonates with our own losses, and her questions about creating our salvation are rays of light illuminating life from unexpected angles.
