{"product_id":"to-claim-loneliness-paperback","title":"To Claim Loneliness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDoris Ferleger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I have taken on the names\/ . . . belonging to those I loved, who loved me. Their river stones\/fell into my pockets,\" writes Doris Ferleger in her beautiful and deeply insightful chapbook, \u003cem\u003eTo Claim Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e. As a child throwing pieces of ritual bread into a river on Rosh Hashanah, the speaker \"used to worry the fish might eat my sins and die.\" As a woman, the speaker wonders, \"if grief left ungrieved\/causes all discord,\" and if \"the point is-(as a Hebrew song says)-to not be afraid.\" Finally, Ferleger offers the reader this moving message: \"Maybe the only part\/of the brain worth remembering-is the heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Hicks\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eKnowing is a Branching Trail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYou Who Took the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoat Out\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eKiss\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this strong and moving collection, \u003cem\u003eTo Claim Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e, Ferleger shows us poetry is possible after Auschwitz, that it resides in that ineffable space of not knowing where \"Yiddish ended and Polish began,\" and how sweetbreads \"heal\" her \"father's war years of raw\/potatoes and piss.\" My favorite poem is \"Be Happy and Never Forget.\" I love that it contains no trace of bitterness. The first poem, \"Rivers,\" pulls us strongly in the flow of life, and the last poem, \"At the Ghost Ranch\" brings us back to the river, its \"unfiltered river water.\" This is poetry of intergenerational witness, and it touches our deepest places in the heart\/mind. -\u003cstrong\u003eRenee Rossi\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eTriage\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMotherboard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoris Ferleger once again stops us in our tracks with her mastery of language and emotional depth in her chapbook, \u003cem\u003eTo Claim Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e. Like the mare she imagines herself to be in one of her powerful poems, she says exactly what she wants to say with a shake of her shiny mane. I challenge anyone to finish this volume without the need to meditate on the depth and breadth within its pages. -\u003cstrong\u003eLew Maltby\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSmiling Axes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 68\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.16 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780482892064,"sku":"9798888383117","price":30.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d8001d79e09f5392d4c20c986aec4bee.webp?v=1780529334","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/to-claim-loneliness-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}