Rachel Zolf’s powerful follow-up to the Trillium Award-winning Human Resources is a virtuoso polyvocal correspondence with the daily news, ancient ...
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Mar 30, 2010
Fathima
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If every breath of air is a border ... / If shahīd is martyr and witness ... / If some are a community of fate
I didn't know who Rachel Zolf was before I heard her read a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it's best to approach this kind of poetry this way: wholly unprepared. So I'd sat through a couple of pretty interesting readings by other poets already, and then suddenly: If the Sabbath is a form of constraint / If jihād is the first word learned ... / If the truth does not lie in silence More...
I didn't know who Rachel Zolf was before I heard her read a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it's best to approach this kind of poetry this way: wholly unprepared. So I'd sat through a couple of pretty interesting readings by other poets already, and then suddenly: If the Sabbath is a form of constraint / If jihād is the first word learned ... / If the truth does not lie in silence More...
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Apr 19, 2010
Kristin
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Really, 3 3/4 stars. I'm still processing...I need to read this book another ten times.
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