{"product_id":"wolf-lamb-bomb","title":"Wolf Lamb Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the The 2021 \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eAward in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAviya Kushner's debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, revives and reimagines the Book of Isaiah in an intimate conversation between woman and prophet. In the aftermath of September 11\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e, ongoing violence in the Middle East, and resurgent antisemitism, Kushner reflects on a Biblical understanding of humanity and justice. \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e wonders equally about our relationship with an inherited past and our desire to understand the precarious present. These poems place the prophet Isaiah in the position of poet, crooner, and rival as they search for a guide in poetry and in life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAviya Kushner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e grew up in a Hebrew-speaking home in New York. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible\u003c\/em\u003e (Spiegel \u0026amp; Grau \/ Penguin Random House), which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, a Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Finalist, and one of \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e‘s Top 10 Religion Stories of the year, as well as the poetry chapbook \u003cem\u003eEve and All the Wrong Men\u003c\/em\u003e (Dancing Girl Press, 2019). Kushner is \u003cem\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/em\u003e‘s language columnist, and previously wrote a travel column for \u003cem\u003eThe International Jerusalem Post.\u003c\/em\u003e She is an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, a founding faculty member at the Randolph College MFA program, and a member of The Third Coast Translators Collective. Her work has been supported by the Howard Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kushner channels the prophet Isaiah, 'lone \/ crooner in the wilderness,' and recasts his 'raving mad' vision for a post-9\/11 age of terrorism and geopolitical conflict.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eturns and turns Isaiah's verse, and dis­cov­ers the ways in which it speaks to our con­tem­po­rary strug­gles, but per­haps the most strik­ing poet­ry comes when Kush­n­er faces the bib­li­cal and speaks back.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eThe Jewish Book Council\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e] feels like a chevruta session with an especially humane and close reader...deeply affecting...Kushner’s fluency with her source text is something to behold.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Jewish Exponent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is verse that stretches from antiquity to tomorrow—prophetic to personal, exhilarated to anguished, lines that leave you breathless and lines that help you breathe. A gift from a new and vital poetic voice. \u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi David Wolpe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'To live is a form of music,' writes Aviya Kushner in this devastating, luminous collection. To call \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e a poetic conversation with the prophet Isaiah does not capture the experience. Yes, a conversation; but also a tango, a song, a eulogy, a takedown, a meditation, and a midrashic re-singing, two and a half millennia later. In the great tradition of the Hebrew scriptures, these poems hold opposites in a single consciousness: feminine and masculine, wolves and lambs, subways and sacred text, Jerusalem and Iowa, text and lust, the blinding light of prophecy and the salve of human tenderness. Among vast visions of 'all the singers \/ on all the stages of the earth,' the intimate, undeniable voice of the human self never wavers. 'I traded love \/ for music,' writes Kushner; the distance between prophet and poet collapses, and we lucky ones listen to the song.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eAlicia Jo Rabins\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e'In the imagined life,' Aviya Kushner writes in her first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, 'the next step is always \/ a problem.' Guided by her reverence for the poetry of the Prophet Isaiah, Kushner steps gingerly toward the problems of contemporary existence—which are, of course, but variations on the themes of faith and freedom, heartbreak and healing, that have inspired poets from time immemorial. 'In my body,' she writes, 'I carry clarity and crime and the harp.' Hear her!\"\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Merrill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eWolf Lamb Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e, with their radiant clarity, encompass both the daily and the spiritual while casting light on the dark moments of our recent history. They ask unanswerable questions of the biblical Isaiah, and Kushner's tremendous power—like Isaiah's—stems from a depth of vision that is everywhere matched by the beauty of her imagery and music. Whether describing the aftermath of September 11th in New York City, or flooding in the Midwest, or a bomb in Jerusalem, she guides us through the wilderness of despair to that place where we might imagine, in some redemptive future, the wolf and the lamb lying down together. As charged and revelatory as lightning, his is an unforgettable book.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Barber\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526342070547,"sku":"9781949039177","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/img_proxy_932cbc15-7cc0-4891-88e4-03b1c6ecab2a.jpg?v=1785851263","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/wolf-lamb-bomb","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}