To a Vanished World

Sharkey, Lee

Literature & Fiction

Puckerbrush Pr

Daughters without mothers: Testimony song

Distributed by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance]

Calendars of Fire is an extended elegy whose grief is political as well as personal. Across barriers of tribe, history, and mortality, these poems carry us home with their music to a dwelling place in our own resonant bodies.

Calendars of Fire

Poetry

Tupelo Press

Poetry. Jewish Studies. WALKING BACKWARDS examines resistance to violence and repression through evocations of contemporary events and conversations with poets and artists whose voices arise from the Holocaust. Employing a remarkable variety of formal strategies lyrics, parables, testimony, paratactic narratives and re-castings of Torah stories, inter- leavings with other texts these poems offer a complex vantage on cultural erasure and persistence. Sharkey conjures a simultaneous present to reclaim a heritage expressed by gaps and silencing. Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, and the Yiddish language poets Abraham Sutzkever and Peretz Markish become contemporaries, as her words mingle with theirs to bear the weight of the unspoken. "What have we come for," the poet asks, "to sleep where the dead slept in the bed of our absence?" What redemption she finds is in language. "Step by step, line by free-floating line, Lee Sharkey walks backwards into the Jewish catastrophe in this deep book of remembrance a collection of parables, an ongoing conversation with the dead, a tablet of fire." Edward Hirsch"

Walking Backwards

Poetry. "In her vibrant I WILL NOT NAME IT EXCEPT TO SAY, Sharkey teaches her throat 'the sounds of a new language.' Sharkey's lyrical precision, wild imagery, and heart-breaking tenderness weave connections and trouble, ranging from the pleasures of old love to improvisations on German Expressionism, family memory, a provocative spiritualism, and difficult history. In every poem, Sharkey makes her readers strive with the poet to speak new words and to see through the searing perceptions that Sharkey's poems have made newly possible." --Janice Harrington

I Will Not Name It Except To Say

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