{"product_id":"kaminsky-marc-a-cleft-in-the-rock-9781948017039","title":"A Cleft in the Rock","description":"Marc Kaminsky's A Cleft in the Rock is a monumental achievement. At home in no world, Kaminsky has an uncanny gift for walking between worlds, traveling like a courier from the personal to the archetypal. I know of no poet whose work, passionate and visceral, inscribes itself so readily in typological time, the perpetual present of Biblical story, psalm, and creation myth. Meticulously grounded-in Yiddishkeit, the maelstrom of the family, wholehearted married love, the struggles of the aging body-these poems open onto absolutes. The chords they strike have extraordinary resonance: a dying father and Moses' encounter with God, a hospital procedure and an interrogation site. Kaminsky visits the depths to find how to \"live\/with catastrophe in the world\/of signs and wonders.\" His book is itself a cleft in the rock, a site of hard-won emotional possibility in a stone-hearted age. These are poems of naked vulnerability and contingency; they remind us what it means to be whole and human. -D. Nurkse\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSample:\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn Eldorado Springs\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe opened a rock and water flowed;in the desert rivers ran. -Psalm 105\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWalking along a trailat the edge of a precipice,you turned as each newwonder came into view\n\u003cbr\u003e\nto show me your facebursting into soundlesslaughter, your eyescommunicated intensities\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof delight and awethat spoke to my wholebody like drum languageand placed me in the scale\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof things never seen before.With each step, I enteredthe area of your surprise-a vein of wilderness\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthrough which shy rattlesnakesslip in and out of the sunand we become unobtrusiveso as not to disturb\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe solitude of the mountainlion and the green pastureswhere elk come outin the open to rut.","brand":"Dos Madres Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53811195347286,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/kaminsky-marc-a-cleft-in-the-rock-9781948017039","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}