{"product_id":"9781556591921","title":"Threshold","description":"\u003cp\u003eShirley Kaufman has long been a house favorite at Copper Canyon, and we’re celebrating her new book with a special price of $12.00.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the United States, Shirley Kaufman has lived for the past 20 years in Jerusalem, a city split by cultural and religious fault lines. In direct, sensitive language, Kaufman’s poems occupy the shifting border between ordinary life and violence, Palestinian and Jew, young love and aging companionship. They grapple with the meaning of routine, of family, and of life among a daily existence punctured with bombs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSometimes I need to be nowhere. A place\u003cbr\u003ewithout history.\u003cbr\u003eA life of wandering\u003cbr\u003elike the desert generation of Moses.\u003cbr\u003eThe wandering Jew. But that brings me\u003cbr\u003eback into history.\u003cbr\u003eSealed rooms. Windows\u003cbr\u003ecriss-crossed with tape so the glass won’t shatter.\u003cbr\u003eA dark noose of memory around my neck.\u003cbr\u003eCoffins covered with flags and flags\u003cbr\u003eburning. I need to be nowhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e —from \"Sanctum\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There’s such solidity to Shirley Kaufman’s writing. . . . You feel in conversation with someone wise and passionate, someone you can trust.\"— \u003ci\u003ePoetry Flash\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kaufman’s poems flourish in the spaces between what is familiar and unfamiliar, between life in Israel and life in the U.S., and in those moments when the differences between Palestinians and Jews, mothers and daughters, history and the immediate moment play themselves out.\"— \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kaufman is adept at revealing the human face behind politics, carefully accumulating familiar details to make a large portrait.\"— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eShirley Kaufman \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books of poetry and several translations from the Hebrew. Her awards include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. A native of Seattle, Kaufman now lives in Jerusalem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055769534704,"sku":"9781556591921","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556591921_p0.jpg?v=1763761456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556591921","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}