Dear Blood

"Remarkably, Topal's lyrical poems-so graceful, beautiful, and spare-manage to bear the inordinate weight of Jewish tragedy and loss."

-Yehoshua November, LA Times Book Prize finalist and author of The Concealment of Endless Light

"This small collection of poems punches way above its weight. In some manner, it provides both discrete and extended elegies. And isn't it difficult to write a Holocaust poem, now? Topal carries it off, elevates memory enveloped within image for scrutiny, as if to s...