Zion Square

<p><strong><em>The music rips the skein of being. The ghost is proudly silent.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>A triumph of difference. Discordant and defiant.</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Maxim D. Shrayer's voice speaks across generations. With a stubborn belief that poetry must be healing Shrayer writes poems that break through boundaries and fears accept defeat and yearn for pleasure.</p><p>-<strong>David Biespiel</strong> author of<em> A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love</em></p><p></p><p>The memories [Shrayer] carries burn in carefully crafted verses as if to contain his furies and his love. ... These are poems to savor and to learn.</p><p>-<strong>Rodger Kamenetz</strong> author of <em>The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022</em></p><p></p><p>Maxim D. Shrayer's <em>Zion Square</em> is a book of unabashed loyalties outspoken in its political commitments at moments bitingly satiric at others tender.</p><p>-<strong>Natania Rosenfeld</strong> author of <em>The Blue Bed</em></p><p></p><p>These haunted poems movingly try to make sense of our current world that is Shrayer passionately reminds us seeped in tragedy.</p><p>-<strong>Yerra Sugarman</strong> author of<em> Aunt Bird</em></p>