{"product_id":"a-speaker-is-a-wilderness-anna-goodman-herrick-9781958972373","title":"A Speaker Is a Wilderness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole","description":"\u003cb\u003eWeaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness.\u003c\/b\u003e This poetry addresses the interconnection of individual, communal, and global trauma, towards collective liberation. In Hebrew, the words for wilderness, speaker, and speaks are spelled the same and share the same root letters. Goodman Herrick's title, from a poem in the collection, references the Torah's BaMidbar (in the wilderness or desert) and her ancestor's ritual practice of elevating etymology, roots, and folk word associations as spiritual meditation. The author returns to her roots and original wholeness through reconnecting language: \"Wilderness speaks\/ A speaker is a wilderness.\"Goodman Herrick survived sexual assault in her teens by a classmate, and left home at 14. The grandchild of an Auschwitz survivor, she's been a New York City club kid, MTV writer-producer, a peacemaker around the world, nun at a Vedanta convent, and student of Chassidic rabbis. This expansiveness lives in her poems. The book invites readers to reconsider prayer and blessing as an ongoing, fluid, language, holding space for the reverent and irreverent as prophetic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Goodman Herrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1958972371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781958972373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monkfish Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Anna Goodman Herrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44790207381759,"sku":"9781958972373","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52db95a8-49ec-4502-a5f2-c8e8d90ecb10.jpg?v=1707288264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-speaker-is-a-wilderness-anna-goodman-herrick-9781958972373","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}