You Were Adam

by Marina Zilbergerts

Overview

Marina Zilbergerts's first poetry collection, You Were Adam, explores the triumphs and disappointments of divine and human creativity. Drawing on the Bible and Jewish thought, Zilbergerts imagines creation through the lens of relationships--metaphysical, erotic, and devotional. Ranging across spiritual and biographical space, from Zhitomir, Ukraine, to the farmlands of Wisconsin, her poems breathe the consciousness of connection into the broken and everyday experience of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666754636
Publisher:	Resource Publications (CA)
Publication date:	10/21/2022
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

Marina Zilbergerts is a scholar of Jewish Literature and Thought. She is the author of The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature (2022). From 2016 to 2022, she was the Lipton Assistant Professor in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She grew up in Zhitomir, Tel Aviv, and Toronto and received her PhD from Stanford University.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“You Were Adam is a first book about first things. Erotic, exploratory, these poems remind us of the mystery of the world and of ourselves. Haunted by biblical and rabbinic language, they move with ease and intelligence in the space between the sensuous and the spiritual.”

—Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, author of Moses: A Human Life



“Zilbergerts’s poetic voice is lyrical and spare in these moving vignettes of intimacies shared and lost. Rich in humor, allusion, and playfulness, You Were Adam blends the ancient and the contemporary in refreshing and memorable ways.”

—Yehoshua November, author of God’s Optimism

Editorial Reviews

You Were Adam is a first book about first things. Erotic, exploratory, these poems remind us of the mystery of the world and of ourselves. Haunted by biblical and rabbinic language, they move with ease and intelligence in the space between the sensuous and the spiritual.”

—Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, author of Moses: A Human Life



“Zilbergerts’s poetic voice is lyrical and spare in these moving vignettes of intimacies shared and lost. Rich in humor, allusion, and playfulness, You Were Adam blends the ancient and the contemporary in refreshing and memorable ways.”

—Yehoshua November, author of God’s Optimism

From the Publisher