Zion Square: poems by Maxim D Shrayer
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Jewish Poetry Project
“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
Year first published: 2025
