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    612-822-4611

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Atomic Time

Atomic Time

Rashkin, Elissa

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $9.95

ISBN10: 1949279081
ISBN13: 9781949279085
Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
Published: Feb 1 2019
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

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.

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