Written with passionate precision, Florsheim's collection goes to
the core of a wide range of intrigues and interests: the Holocaust,
artworks, the mysteries of the everyday. Urbane and astute, his
work is empathetic and clear-headed. A rich offering. -David
Meltzer, author of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David
Meltzer Among the pleasures of Stewart Florsheim's A Split Second
of Light are his incisive character portraits of parents and family
and the dramatic incidents he conjures out of paintings by
Caillebotte, Chardin, Bonnard and others. Florsheim's gift for
scene-setting and succinct phrasing, and his eye for revealing
detail, make this a rewarding collection. -Chana Bloch, author of
Blood Honey and translator of Yehuda Amichai and other Israeli
poets Stewart Florsheim is one of those rare poets who has it all:
chillingly beautiful language that draws the reader into myriad
worlds of "riveting silence" and "prayer bells"; great courage to
face the darkness, and the strength and wisdom to see that death
and life are inextricably intertwined. This is an extraordinary
book. -Louise Nayer, author of Burned: A Memoir In A Split Second
of Light, Stewart Florsheim offers insights into the quiet world of
a poet born into a family of Holocaust survivors. And here we find
poems that speak softly and carefully about the poet's childhood,
about his growing up and traveling the world, about the imagined
lives of the people inside the great works of art. Here we find a
quiet, powerful book of poems grounded in the reality of a Jewish
family, in the world that was handed down, father to son, "See,
this is how you carve a steak/. . . His cleaver glided easily/
across lines of gristle/ then he handed me the filet/ blood
dripping/ from his hand into mine." -Charles Entrekin, author of
Listening: New and Selected Work This elegiac verse chronicles love
in its sensitive idolizations yet astute analysis of having family
impacted dearly by the Holocaust. These poems are a testimony of
hope rooted in faith with both their hands linked. These poems call
out names in syllables that ring, turning them into what those who
people the pages were, beautiful and strong. In these poems,
nothing of what is said can disappear unnoticed. -Andrena Zawinski,
Features Editor, PoetryMagazine.com and PEN award winner for
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