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&;Emily Warn is one tough poet. . . . She not only takes on God but also juggles the hot coals of memory and wrestles her way to an honest spiritual life.&;&;The Seattle Times
"Warn has created a serious meditation on Jewish prayer and cosmogony, in lyrical prose and in accessible verse, a book that belongs not only on poetry shelves, but amid other Judaica and books of prose and verse on religious themes." &;Publishers Weekly
"...a sincere exploration of spirituality and the line between the abstract and the concrete..." &;Library Journal
How are words made, and how do they derive power? These are the questions at the core of Emily Warn&;s Shadow Architect, organized around the twenty-two-letter Hebrew alphabet. Mystics have seen that alphabet as a key to divine intent, since God brought the world into being through speech. But Warn takes a poet&;s view rather than a theologian&;s: she sees the alphabet&;s power to reveal the nature of invention, and the limits of language and knowledge. Shadow Architect channels this power not only through word but through image: each poem begins with an illumination of a Hebrew letter. Within the set boundaries of this alphabet, Warn generates a rich polyphony, uniting her own distinctly American poetics with the language of sacred texts and commentaries.
The result is an alluring, postmodernist take on how language means: an architecture not only of shadows, but of &;correspondences, analogies, clues, / binaries, metaphors, keys.&;
To invent the alef-beit,
decipher the grammar of crows,
read a tangle of bare branches
with vowels of the last leaves
scrawling their jittery speech
on the sky&;s pale page.
Emily Warn, author of two previous books of poetry, lives in Seattle and Chicago, where she is the editor of the Poetry Foundation&;s website.
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Emily Warn is the editor for the Poetry Foundation website, which won a 2007 "Best of the Web" award. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is the author of two books of poems. She lives in Chicago and Seattle.
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