{"product_id":"we-who-desire-poems-and-torah-riffs-paperback","title":"we who desire: poems and Torah riffs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSue Swartz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Genesis to Deuteronomy, from \u003cem\u003eBereshit\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eZot Haberacha\u003c\/em\u003e, from Eden to Gaza, from Eve to Emma Goldman, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ewe who desire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e interweaves the mythic and the mundane as it follows the arc of the Torah with carefully chosen words, astute observations, and deep emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ewe who desire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e began as daily writing practice, a poem on the weekly Torah portion. I refined, edited, slashed, leaving only those words that tell a story, the real story of creation and covenant, liberation and desire. Especially desire. I have turned it and turned it for decades, this manual of instruction, this text that called me into forever. Turned it until the words felt right, until I was able to admit its hold on me. Fire and splendor. Fire and splendor.\" -Sue Swartz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSue Swartz has used a brilliant, fortified, playful, serious, humanely furious moral imagination, and a poet's love of the music of language, to re-tell the saga of the Bible you thought you knew-and make its implications crystal clear for the life you are right now living. Amen.\u003cbr\u003e -Alicia Ostriker, author, \u003cem\u003eFor the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsistently on key, Swartz's lyrical voice moves deftly between the Biblical past and our gritty, contemporary moment-often interweaving the two in surprising ways.\u003cbr\u003e -Yehoshua November, author, \u003cem\u003eGod's Optimism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSue Swartz does magnificent acrobatics with the Torah in We Who Desire. She takes the English that's become staid and boring, and adds something that's new and strange and exciting. These are poems that leave a taste in your mouth, and you walk away from them thinking, what did I just read? Oh, yeah. It's the Bible.\u003cbr\u003e -Matthue Roth, author, \u003cem\u003eYom Kippur A Go-Go\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMy First Kafka\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is more than their accessibility that marks Sue Swartz's poems as special - it is the access they give the reader to sudden emotion: wonder, desire, laughter, hurt. Swartz has taken the well-worn motif of Torah commentary-in-verse and created something entirely new and entirely wonderful.\u003cbr\u003e ­-Lawrence Bush, author, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Torah Toons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWaiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52729882116403,"sku":"9781934730515","price":41.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/PxGQLWPMP9781934730515.webp?v=1763823443","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/we-who-desire-poems-and-torah-riffs-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}