To Die Next To You
To Die Next to You is a hybrid creature--but a strange and miraculous one, a sphinx, or a flock of cherubim. .---IMAGE JOURNALThe poems have a dream’s ethereal beauty... at once intimately familiar  and profoundly strange. Yet instead of leaving us to err in this sleepy  wilderness by ourselves, Kamenetz is sharp, analytical, and funny...  Hafftka’s striking art drives the point home by giving each poem a  literal, haunting illustration...Those who, like me, admire Kamenetz’s  earlier work...will find here an ever purer dose of his metaphysical  mastery.-- TABLETJacob and Joseph begat Freud who begat Jung, who begat the poet Rodger  Kamenetz and the visual artist Michael Hafftka. Their collaborative  wizardry, published in the book To Die Next To You, is stunning. The  poems and drawings (always paired) create vivid, waking dreams on  psychological and spiritual subjects—dreams that are as resistant and  open to interpretation as Pharaoh’s.That these two major Jewish artists  would hook up seems inevitable.--Tikkun