Repartings: Poems of Haftara

Repartings is a cyclical poetic response, in voice feral and exacting, to the imagery of the prophetic texts of the Hebrew bible.

Joelle Maxx Milman's debut collection of poetry contains two parts, woven together: original poetry, written in response to the weekly portion of prophetic text read aloud in synagogues, alongside linguistically adventurous translations of the prophetic texts themselves.

The poetry and translations track the central speaker-poet-prophet as she dips in and out of v...