The World's Room is a dynamic first collection in which the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slangy, the sacred and the profane are beautifully intertwined. From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, Joshua Weiner's work displays boundless imaginative and linguistic possibilities.
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In the first poem in Weiner's first collection, he is driving at night and talking to God, whom he likens to the brightest star, which he finds in the night sky by following "weaker lights" to it, just as he finds the road's curves by following other cars' taillights and has always found God's word by following his family, even though "they . . . extinguish themselves / whenever I sing your praises." This isn't a long poem, but it may be the most apposite lyrical utterance to date on so many modern believers' situation that it makes the book invaluable all by itself. Not that its companion poems are negligible. With humor, sympathy for small children and dogs, and keen appreciation of family and global history and how they interact, especially for twentieth-century Jews, Weiner crafts immensely readable expressions of youthful joy and moral seriousness. A very distinguished debut. Ray Olson
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The World's Room is a dynamic first collection in which the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slangy, the sacred and the profane are beautifully intertwined. From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, Joshua Weiner's work displays boundless imaginative and linguistic possibilities.
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When I sing to you I am alone these days and can't believe it, as if the stars -while gazing up at them-just shut off. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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