Miriams Book: A Poem

by Harold Schweizer

Overview

Miriam's Book is about a young Jewish woman's traumatic experiences in WW2 and subsequently her child's exposure to her post-traumatic stress disorder. While much of this narrative poem or verse novella is based on historical events, the fictional parts and the dislocations of syntax and temporal sequence aim to convey the terrifying uncertainty and disorientation suffered by victims of war and flight.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157615932
Publisher:	Fomite
Publication date:	01/02/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Harold Schweizer’s most recent publications include a volume of poems The Book of Stones and Angels (Tupelo Press) as well as two books of philosophical prose, Rarity and the Poetic: The Gesture of Small Flowers (Palgrave) and On Waiting (Routledge). He is Professor of English at Bucknell University.

Editorial Reviews

"From the very first line, "Before the night stoops like a widow over a field of bones," as Harold Schweizer's stunning poem sequence opens, we are in the presence of a great poet. At once metaphor of loss and grief and fractal of Europe's post-war landscape, Miriam's Book comprises a harrowing tale of the struggles of one young couple--the narrator's Jewish mother and gentile father--to survive the war.

Cynthia Hogue

"Harold Schweizer's poetic novella Miriam's Book is literally the best reading that has come before me in several years--fiction or poetry. Miriam's Book is a resonant cry that reverberates long after one has read it to the last. "

Tess Gallagher

"In Harold Schweizer's strikingly innovative book-length poem Miriam's Book, time becomes part of an emotionally charged interior narration.Miriam's Book is a stunning achievement and may well prove to be one of the most accomplished prose poems of recent times. "

Charles Borkhuis