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Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat

Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat

Benjamin, Laurel

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1971191124
ISBN13: 9781971191126
Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The poems of Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat carry readers into Jewish heritage and forward into diaspora. In addition, the push against biological imperative as a woman causes us to consider ways in which all women disappear. This collection ranges from stories of donkeys and goats, to the ghost of a grandmother in the guise of a deer, to the broken glass inside a camera. The poems are filled with magical thinking brought on by necessity, and ultimately ask the question: How do we live a life while others-our family, our people-are suffering? In the end, it is mishpatim, learning to compromise in an argument that serves as a way to reconstruct guilt and mistakes, re-see the unseen, and survive-even if that survival is a journey into the speaker's imagination, into the sea's open throat.

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