“Thoughtful, elegant, and wise, Night said explores the complexities of what it means to be a twenty-first-century Jew living in the Diaspora. Throughout her latest collection, Barbara Rockman simultaneously looks back—both to the distant ancestral past and to more recent histories of displacement—as well as forward into the future. ‘Travel small,’ the book advises, but, in fact, the speaker travels very large, carrying enormous stories, rituals, traumas, and memories in her ‘overpacked valise.’ These are poems that wander from the flowering, desert landscapes of New Mexico to the rivers and fields of Ukraine and back again, crossing from generation to generation, searching for angels that ‘swarm and lean into each retold tale.’” - Jehanne Dubrow, author of The Arranged Marriage: Poems
