The poems of Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat carry readers into Jewish heritage and forward into diaspora. In addition, the push against biological imperative as a woman causes us to consider ways in which all women disappear. This collection ranges from stories of donkeys and goats, to the ghost of a grandmother in the guise of a deer, to the broken glass inside a camera. The poems are filled with magical thinking brought on by necessity, and ultimately ask the question: How do we live a life while others-our family, our people-are suffering? In the end, it is mishpatim, learning to compromise in an argument that serves as a way to reconstruct guilt and mistakes, re-see the unseen, and survive-even if that survival is a journey into the speaker's imagination, into the sea's open throat.
