Everything Thaws

<p>R.B. Lemberg's poems are a manifesto of memories unearthing worlds that are gone and poignantly present: their childhood in the Soviet Union suspended between Ukraine and the permafrost of Siberia among the traumatized silent persecuted members of their Jewish family; Lemberg's coming of age in Israel being the other wherever they go both internally and externally in multiple identities languages genders; and the arrival in the lost land of their America where they have put down tentative roots.</p><p><br></p><p>Every line in this stunning lyrical memoir is chiseled with the poignant precision of ice into a coruscating cascade that engulfs us with the author's sensations of solitude anger grief; sometimes hurling like an avalanche sometimes tenderly unfolding like constellations in a circumpolar sky - leaving open the possibility that with the disturbing truths covered for decades the thawing permafrost from Lemberg's past might also lay bare layers of love.</p>