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The Face in the Window
Linda Stern Zisquit
Sheep Meadow Press
distributed by University Press of New England
2004 • 85 pp. 6 1/2 " x 9"
Poetry
$12.95 Paper, 1-931357-17-X
US, Australia & New Zealand only
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"Zisquit’s poetry is infinitely generative, viscerally connected with life’s ‘basic aspects,’ teeming with life and with love: with the fullness of motherhood and the fullness of passion and the ritually determined, and the inevitably violated, consciousness of sin and of the waters of absolution."—Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Tikkun
"Linda Zisquit is a lyric poet who writes as a woman of body and soul, a daughter, a mother, living through the events of life, death, and memory. Her work is delicate, musical, unbreakable — the lines feel light yet are absolutely firm. There is nothing ‘confessional’ about these poems; rather, they are meditative, scrupulous, chaste, sensuous, epigrammatic, compassionate. Not confessional but forgiving, The Face in the Window is aesthetically and morally beautiful."—Alicia Ostriker
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LINDA STERN ZISQUIT was born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Tufts University, Harvard University, and SUNY Buffalo. She is an American emigrant to Israel, described by Tikkun as a poet who "writes her American self in into the culture while coaxing its Hebrew voices into English." Zisquit is the author of Unopened Letters (1996) and Ritual Bath (1992), and the translator of several works, including Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997), for which she won an NEA translation grant and a PEN translation award. Zisquit lives in Jerusalem, where she teaches at Bar Ilan University and runs an art gallery.
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