Atomic Time
Overview
"I, poet, convoke this minyan of infidels/to mourn and to celebrate/what remains of our humanity." Elissa Rashkin's Atomic Time entranced me with a timeless voice, a voice as sharp and sorrowful as broken glass, a voice "reeking of murder/rain and apocalypse." Rashkin unflinchingly examines the atrocities of the European ghetto, of the Middle Passage, of a "no-woman's land." The language is rich, muscular, and mournful, a "kaddish for the rest of us," that recalls a pain both exotic and hauntingly familiar. Rashkin reminds me that hope is just as close, "Just behind that distant mountain/must be Jerusalem." The voice is human and generous, giving the reader, "blood of petals . . . . a blessing, a goodbye." Atomic Time is an important book for this volatile world.
-- Jennifer Martelli, author of My Tarantella
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781949279085
- ISBN-10: 1949279081
- Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
- Publish Date: February 2019
- Dimensions: 7.81 x 5.06 x 0.17 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.19 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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