{"product_id":"9781556593079","title":"Ezekiel's Wheels","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Progressive, passionate, and unfailingly feminist, Kaufman is a breathtakingly fine poet.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If someone is going to be exalted as a representative voice of Jewish or Israeli life in contemporary American poetry, one couldn’t ask for a more insightful or mature writer to assume such an impossible role.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Jerusalem Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kaufman approaches Jerusalem’s bitter memories, contested histories and joyous unfoldings with a wary love.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShirley Kaufman utilizes enigmatic symbolism from the \u003ci\u003eBook of Ezekiel\u003c\/i\u003e as she writes into the themes of exile and emigration that have marked her work since she moved to Israel thirty-six years ago. Her new poems attempt to bring meaning to an irrational world—the unrelenting passage of human life, the risks of artistic endeavoring, and the artist’s struggle with the loss of sight and memory. After nearly four decades of writing and publishing, Kaufman maintains a lightness of touch even while her poetry takes on an increased awareness of danger and urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . I don’t want to\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elook back but can’t see ahead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom where I am now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e now \u003ci\u003eis whatever I didn’t do\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eyesterday. Not what I live in.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow \u003ci\u003eis the fear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethere won’t be anything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eafter now.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Kaufman\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Seattle, lived in San Francisco, and immigrated to Jerusalem in 1973. Eight volumes of her award-winning poetry have been published in the United States, three by Copper Canyon Press. She lives in Jerusalem, Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050361929968,"sku":"9781556593079","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593079_p0.jpg?v=1763755936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593079","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}