Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat

Laurel Benjamin
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The poems of Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat carry readers into Jewish heritage and forward into diaspora. In addition, the push against biological imperative as a woman causes us to consider ways in which all women disappear. This collection ranges from stories of donkeys and goats, to the ghost of a grandmother in the guise of a deer, to the broken glass inside a camera. The poems are filled with magical thinking brought on by necessity, and ultimately ask the question: How do we live a life while others-our family, our people-are suffering? In the end, it is mishpatim, learning to compromise in an argument that serves as a way to reconstruct guilt and mistakes, re-see the unseen, and survive-even if that survival is a journey into the speaker's imagination, into the sea's open throat.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
Published: 03/31/2026
ISBN: 9781971191126
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d