{"product_id":"zion-square-poems-9781963475715","title":"Zion Square: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The music rips the skein of being. The ghost is proudly silent.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA triumph of difference. Discordant and defiant.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaxim D. Shrayer's voice speaks across generations. With a stubborn belief that poetry must be healing, Shrayer writes poems that break through boundaries and fears, accept defeat, and yearn for pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Biespiel\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe memories [Shrayer] carries burn in carefully crafted verses as if to contain his furies and his love. ... These are poems to savor and to learn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eRodger Kamenetz\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaxim D. Shrayer's \u003cem\u003eZion Square\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of unabashed loyalties, outspoken in its political commitments, at moments bitingly satiric, at others, tender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eNatania Rosenfeld\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Bed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese haunted poems movingly try to make sense of our current world that is, Shrayer passionately reminds us, seeped in tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eYerra Sugarman\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e Aunt Bird\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShrayer, Maxim D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual author and a professor at Boston College. He was born in Moscow and emigrated in 1987. His recent books include A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas; Immigrant Baggage, a memoir; and Kinship, a poetry collection. Shrayer's works have been translated into thirteen languages.","brand":"Ben Yehuda Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690764534034,"sku":"9781963475715","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce45552d-10b3-4eca-9f56-7cf240474921.jpg?v=1761747016","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zion-square-poems-9781963475715","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}