All the Holes Line Up - (Jewish Poetry Project) by Zackary Sholem Berger (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Zackary Sholem Berger is a poet, a Yiddish translator, a doctor. In this volume, he is also an observant Jew visiting other people's holy places and an American city dweller among the poets of pre-War Vilna and Yiddish-speaking Tel Aviv. Berger's observations and language are precise as a lancet and his observations are therapeutically acute. This volume showcases him at the height of his powers.

Review Quotes

"Spare and precise, Berger's poems in All the Holes Line Up gaze unflinchingly at--but also celebrate--human imperfection in its many forms. And what a delight that Berger also includes in this collection a handful of his resonant translations of some of the great Yiddish poets." --Yehoshua November, author of God's Optimism and Two World Exist

"What a pleasure is Zackary Sholem Berger's thoughtful (and terrifically titled) new book, All the Holes Line Up. A physician, it's not surprising that he uses, with great precision, medical words like saccade and vermiform, words you'll probably have to look up (I did) and that will trigger sensations you never had before: Wow! There's more: the generosity of lines like 'myths bloom among mistakes, ' the details about his adopted Baltimore, the fresh translations. Stretch out your hands and catch Zack Berger's glorious kingdom." --Elinor Nauen, author if Now That I Know Where I'm Going