You Were Adam
Poems
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Marina Zilbergerts's first poetry collection, You Were Adam, explores the triumphs and disappointments of divine and human creativity. Drawing on the Bible and Jewish thought, Zilbergerts imagines creation through the lens of relationships--metaphysical, erotic, and devotional. Ranging across spiritual and biographical space, from Zhitomir, Ukraine, to the farmlands of Wisconsin, her poems breathe the consciousness of connection into the broken and everyday experience of the world.
Endorsements (2)
“You Were Adam is a first book about first things. Erotic, exploratory, these poems remind us of the mystery of the world and of ourselves. Haunted by biblical and rabbinic language, they move with ease and intelligence in the space between the sensuous and the spiritual.”
“Zilbergerts’s poetic voice is lyrical and spare in these moving vignettes of intimacies shared and lost. Rich in humor, allusion, and playfulness, You Were Adam blends the ancient and the contemporary in refreshing and memorable ways.”
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