Words for a Dazzling Firmament: Poems / Readings on Bereshit Through Shemot

Abe Mezrich breathes new life into the first third of the Torah in this book of poetic midrash.

"It would have been enough if Abe Mezrich only wrote midrashim (creative re-interpretations/rediscoveries of the Torah); it would have been enough if he only wrote poems; it would have been enough if he only wrote Zen koans. How fortunate are we that he has given us a work combines all three! Mezrich is a cultivated craftsman—interpretively astute, sonically deliberate, and spiritually cunning."

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