The Floating Door Quitab Editions and Carolyn Forche

and Carolyn Forche

My love in the dead groves

and the traditions and harsh legacy of colonialism

finger and hands

human and divine

The Floating Door Quitab Editions and Carolyn ForcheM. E. Silvermans The Floating Door moves from the peculiar and vivid details of growing up Jewish in America to a series of musings about the last Jew in Kabul, over whom the sun snaps shut like a casket. Noah and Abraham and Isaac vie for attention in a childs mind with schoolyard rhymes like step on a crack, break your mothers back. A menorah takes center stage, then a Captain America glass. Throughout, theres a daring coupling of whimsy and pathos.