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Refusenik

Lynn Melnick
4.50/5 (52 ratings)
In this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head-first through concentric waves of personal and generational trauma with her trademark fearlessness. Evincing a complex mind shaped by the late 20th century’s misplaced priorities, Refusenik interrogates misogyny and anti-Semitism across time and a shifting global landscape—from a football field in Los Angeles to a Russian shtetl to a beloved daughter’s Brooklyn bedroom. Variously unraveling and allowing for intricate tangles of anger, nostalgia and love, these agile poems furrow deeper into the terrain of Melnick’s much-celebrated earlier titles, arriving at a profound and pressured understanding of what it means to be a contemporary American.


Praise for Lynn Melnick's writing:
“Fierce.” Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal


“Melnick’s is the rare kind of poetry that reads like a page-turner; I read it in one sitting and then read it again, and in the end I felt both angry and tender, and more alive.” Shelly Oria, BOMB

Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
YesYes Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1936919885
ISBN13:
9781936919888
kindle Asin:
1936919885

Refusenik

Lynn Melnick
4.50/5 (52 ratings)
In this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head-first through concentric waves of personal and generational trauma with her trademark fearlessness. Evincing a complex mind shaped by the late 20th century’s misplaced priorities, Refusenik interrogates misogyny and anti-Semitism across time and a shifting global landscape—from a football field in Los Angeles to a Russian shtetl to a beloved daughter’s Brooklyn bedroom. Variously unraveling and allowing for intricate tangles of anger, nostalgia and love, these agile poems furrow deeper into the terrain of Melnick’s much-celebrated earlier titles, arriving at a profound and pressured understanding of what it means to be a contemporary American.


Praise for Lynn Melnick's writing:
“Fierce.” Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal


“Melnick’s is the rare kind of poetry that reads like a page-turner; I read it in one sitting and then read it again, and in the end I felt both angry and tender, and more alive.” Shelly Oria, BOMB

Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
YesYes Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1936919885
ISBN13:
9781936919888
kindle Asin:
1936919885