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Grip
Grip
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Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award
In her debut poetry collection, Grip, Yvette Neisser Moreno delves into the legacies passed down by her Jewish family: the experience of surviving the Holocaust, immigration from Europe to the U.S., and the ever-presence of music imbued by her German grandparents. Rooted in these experiences, she further explores World War II in Juliek's Violin—a poem inspired by Elie Wiesel's Night—and Gliding Through This Place, about Japanese peace heroine Sadako Sasaki. She also reflects on current events through a Jewish lens, as in Now, Anything Can Quicken Your Heartbeat, which fuses the Yom Kippur holiday of atonement with reflections on 9/11. From there, Moreno digs deep into her family as well as the world around her. For example, in the sequence Night in the Desert, she takes us on a journey through Egypt—where she engages with Muslim culture, the Palestinian—Israeli conflict, the Arabic language, ancient history, and the mysteries of the desert—and in the book's final section, My Father's Shadow, she traces the process of grieving for her father. Along the way, she meditates on stories that have moved her, from a Ray Bradbury story, to an orca named Luna, to a mockingbird in its final moments. But even when the poems tell someone else's story, they are imbued with a Jewish sense of what it means to survive.
In her debut poetry collection, Grip, Yvette Neisser Moreno delves into the legacies passed down by her Jewish family: the experience of surviving the Holocaust, immigration from Europe to the U.S., and the ever-presence of music imbued by her German grandparents. Rooted in these experiences, she further explores World War II in Juliek's Violin—a poem inspired by Elie Wiesel's Night—and Gliding Through This Place, about Japanese peace heroine Sadako Sasaki. She also reflects on current events through a Jewish lens, as in Now, Anything Can Quicken Your Heartbeat, which fuses the Yom Kippur holiday of atonement with reflections on 9/11. From there, Moreno digs deep into her family as well as the world around her. For example, in the sequence Night in the Desert, she takes us on a journey through Egypt—where she engages with Muslim culture, the Palestinian—Israeli conflict, the Arabic language, ancient history, and the mysteries of the desert—and in the book's final section, My Father's Shadow, she traces the process of grieving for her father. Along the way, she meditates on stories that have moved her, from a Ray Bradbury story, to an orca named Luna, to a mockingbird in its final moments. But even when the poems tell someone else's story, they are imbued with a Jewish sense of what it means to survive.
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