The Floating Door Quitab Editions and the traditions and harsh

and the traditions and harsh legacy of colonialism

as though he has invented a landscape for his language alone

finger and hands

this is poetry that cuts to the bone and reaches the ether

" Lori Desrosiers asserts at the end of her harrowing

The Floating Door Quitab Editions and the traditions and harshM. E. Silvermans The Floating Door moves from the peculiar and vivid details of growing up Jewish in America to a series of musings about the last Jew in Kabul, over whom the sun snaps shut like a casket. Noah and Abraham and Isaac vie for attention in a childs mind with schoolyard rhymes like step on a crack, break your mothers back. A menorah takes center stage, then a Captain America glass. Throughout, theres a daring coupling of whimsy and pathos.