{"product_id":"reverberations-kim-malinowski-9781639807413","title":"Reverberations","description":"Malinowski delivers precise images, both disturbing and intimate, yet she keeps us at arm's length as the voice of the narrator is handed over to various speakers from the past. We have the limp noodles of the grandmother, the dust-covered piano of the grandfather. But it's the cracked and bent trees, the \"cut off stumps\" that halt our breathing. Family and strangers are lost to the past, the Ashkenazi Jewish world stamped out by Hitler. She even finds a way of addressing personal guilt. We are left with a unique collective experience, as we too, are erased.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurel Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFLOWERS ON A TRAIN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a story told in flashes, as though by the pulsing lights of an ambulance, of bombs and rockets exploding, of interrupted memories. Each flash, each isolated memory matters because distance lets us supply the connections. This is the voice of someone on the outside who is searching for a way to understand. Each poem documents an absence - of information, of a person or creature, of common language, of comprehension - and each hole implies the weave of the context. Each poem about each memory is a visceral blow, as it should be. I could say that Malinowski has worked through these events so that you don't have to, but that would not be true. Malinowski has worked through them because we need to know why and how war matters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Greenbaum-Maya\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of Knots and Their Untying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKim Malinowski's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eReverberations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a conversation with the past told in a chorus of voices. Soldiers, victims, survivors, and historians all take their turn painting their version of truth. From \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The taste of blood and dirt\u003cbr\u003ecaked sweat of war\u003cbr\u003eputting layers upon layers on\u003cbr\u003eforgetting is too easy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet you may find forgetting these poems is not so easy. The collection is a song of conflict and survival that will echo long after you've turned the last page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabby Gilliam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Ocean Spit Me Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Malinowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639807411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639807413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Malinowski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962658115839,"sku":"9781639807413","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4d8e3157-cc3c-47c7-908e-411866ddbe33.jpg?v=1750652131","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reverberations-kim-malinowski-9781639807413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}