The Floating Door Quitab Editions - Alexis Rhone Fancher

- Alexis Rhone Fancher

and the traditions and harsh legacy of colonialism

Her poetry offers fresh language to express the complexities of her identity

" Lori Desrosiers asserts at the end of her harrowing

as though he has invented a landscape for his language alone

The Floating Door Quitab Editions - Alexis Rhone FancherM. 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.