A PRAYER ON BEHALF OF THE BROKEN HEART (132) (New Women's Voices)
Brand: Finishing Line Press
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry



Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.1 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1635342215
Language: English
ISBN-10: 163534221X
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Print length: 40 pages
Publication date: May 19, 2017
subtitle: Paperback – May 19, 2017
author: Rachel Kann
review: Editorial Reviews Review "Your very being is a map of eternity," writes Rachel Kann in A Prayer on Behalf of the Broken Heart, a book best experienced as just that: a field guide to endurance and the interminable foreverness of G-d. But it's more than that. "The best infinity / The constellation of all possibilities, / Is beyond our comprehension." What is most ineffable is most unknowable, even though it permeates every atom of our world. These poems teach us that there is beauty in brokenness, for even that is made from the matter of our maker. This is a rabbinical book. Jill Alexander Essbaum , New York Times best-selling author and poet Each piece in this collection sails lyrically through the grimy sea of human imperfection. And at the conclusion, the shoreline, of so many of these poems, the speaker reveals a counterintuitive secret: Beneath the murky waters of our fallibility resides--has always resided--what is most Divine. This is a deep and beautiful book. Yehoshua November , Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award Winner, LA Times Book Prize Finalist About the Author TEDx Poet Rachel Kann is a resident writer for Hevria. She's shared her poetry on Morning Becomes Eclectic on NPR, as "The Weather" on the podcast phenomenon, Welcome to Night Vale and at venues such as Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall, and The Broad Stage. Her writing (poetry and fiction) appears or is forthcoming in journals such as Tiferet, Eclipse, Permafrost, Coe Review, Sou'wester, GW Review, Quiddity, The Moon Magazine, and Lalitamba. She has received accolades from the James Kirkwood Fiction Awards, Writer's Digest Short-Short Story Awards, and LA Weekly Awards. She is the 2017 recipient of the Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Writing through the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension, where she teaches poetry and fiction workshops. She is a poet, a dancer, a shamanic apprentice in the Shipibo lineage, and completing priestess ordination through Kohenet.