Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat

By Laurel Benjamin

The poems of Written into the Curve of the Sea's Open Throat carry readers into Jewish heritage and forward into diaspora. In addition, the push against biological imperative as a woman causes us to consider ways in which all women disappear. This collection ranges from stories of donkeys and goats, to the ghost of a grandmother in the guise of a deer, to the broken glass inside a camera. The poems are filled with magical thinking brought on by necessity, and ultimately ask the question: How do we live a life while others-our family, our people-are suffering? In the end, it is mishpatim, learning to compromise in an argument that serves as a way to reconstruct guilt and mistakes, re-see the unseen, and survive-even if that survival is a journey into the speaker's imagination, into the sea's open throat.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1971191124
• ISBN13: 9781971191126
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"