Shake and Tremor - by Deborah Bacharach (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Deborah Bacharach's very contemporary book of poetry uses references to biblical stories in order to illuminate the relationships between men and women, their difficulties and complications. It's a bold book of loss and survival, betrayal and love, a book about work and about humanity. Abraham and Sarah are here, as well as Lot and his wife, Hagar, Potiphar, and others. Modern-day lovers are here too, along with struggles and satisfactions that are universal.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>The God of Debby Bacharach's Shake & Tremor</em> wears black leather boots and shaves her head on the day she destroys Soddom and Gammorah-she's that kind of God. But she's also all about doing her work-women's work, which is the work of this book, which means: love and survive. Bacharach builds this book of allegories about the contemporary complications of romantic and sexual relationships around the stories of wives: Sarah and Hagar, Lot's wife, Potiphar's wife. But it also is a book of revelations and angels-if by angels you mean what Bacharach's Hagar means: "Angel is the word I say when I mean/strength of will."</p><p><br></p><p>-Brian Clements, co-editor of <em>Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Jewish tradition teaches that there are 70 faces of Torah-70 insights for each word of the sacred text whose narratives and laws and mysteries lie at the heart of Creation. In <em>Shake and Tremor</em>, Deborah Bacharach reveals the face of men resolute in and haunted by their acts in God's name, of women who wonder and want and become their own rescuing angels, of a deity who looks strangers in the eye and walks unafraid-the face of our lovers, our friends, the people we are when we think no one is watching. This collection is not a sacred text, but it is a revelation - brilliant, honest, painful, beautiful, and always unafraid.</p><p><br></p><p>-Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman, author of The Messiah and the Jews</em> </p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Shake & Tremor</em>, Deborah Bacharach's new book of poetry, characters from the book of Genesis are reimagined through a contemporary, feminist lens. Those who are nameless: Lot's wife, Potiphar's wife, Lot's daughters, are given voice. Lot, Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar also speak...We hear these characters, especially the women, speaking voluminously about marriage, polyamorous relationships, surrogacy, infertility, and female sexual desire. They speak about motherhood and loss as well. These characters' stories are the substance for Bacharach's prodigious and imaginative retelling as she seeks to answer these questions: How do we modern humans relate to our ancestors and ancestral stories? What is my place as a woman, and as a descendent of more than five thousand years of Jewish history?... Bacharach aims us toward remembering, claiming our pasts, and finding ways to move forward.</p><p><br></p><p>-Suzanne Edison, The Adroit Journal</em></p><br>
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