Zion Square: poems

By Maxim D Shrayer

"The music rips the skein of being. The ghost is proudly silent.

A triumph of difference. Discordant and defiant."

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.

-David Biespiel, author of A Self-Portrait in the Year of the High Commission on Love

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.

-Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022

Maxim D. Shrayer's Zion Square is a book of unabashed loyalties, outspoken in its political commitments, at moments bitingly satiric, at others, tender.

-Natania Rosenfeld, author of The Blue Bed

These haunted poems movingly try to make sense of our current world that is, Shrayer passionately reminds us, seeped in tragedy.

-Yerra Sugarman, author of Aunt Bird

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1963475712
• ISBN13: 9781963475715
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Ben Yehuda Press
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"