ZAFTIG

<p>In her exceptional debut<strong> </strong>collection of poems Molly Raynor welcomes you to sit at the table with her ancestors mothers sisters friends and wild women as she glues together moving memories of waxy-lipped kisses and potato peel dresses. Ghosts of the old country lost loves and the unborn haunt <em>ZAFTIG</em>. Raynor's poems are imbued with deep Judaic traditions and a sprinkle of Yiddish. They burst forth with sensuality survival and the push-pull of women's bodies as coveted flesh. Braiding together words like bread to lay on the table in honor of the beauty & the terror of living these poems breathe new life. Inspired by the past but firmly planted in the present <em>ZAFTIG</em> joyfully takes up space like the powerful women who fill Raynor's heart and words.</p>