Zion Square: poems

"The music rips the skein of being. The ghost is proudly silent.

A triumph of difference. Discordant and defiant."

Maxim D. Shrayer's voice speaks across generations. With a stubborn belief that poetry must be healing, Shrayer writes poems that break through boundaries and fears, accept defeat, and yearn for pleasure.

-David Biespiel, author of A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love

The memories [Shrayer] carries burn in carefully crafted verses as if to contain his furies a...