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A Speaker Is a Wilderness : Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole, Paperback / softback Book

A Speaker Is a Wilderness : Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole Paperback / softback

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Weaves Jewish sacred texts, mysticism, human rights, and a modern voice of radical love, taking readers on a path of healing from brokenness to wholeness.

This poetry addresses the interconnection of individual, communal, and global trauma, towards collective liberation. In Hebrew, the words for wilderness, speaker, and speaks are spelled the same and share the same root letters. Goodman Herricks title, from a poem in the collection, references the Torahs BaMidbar (in the wilderness or desert) and her ancestors ritual practice of elevating etymology, roots, and folk word associations as spiritual meditation. The author returns to her roots and original wholeness through reconnecting language: Wilderness speaks/ A speaker is a wilderness.

Goodman Herrick survived sexual assault in her teens by a classmate, and left home at 14. The grandchild of an Auschwitz survivor, shes been a New York City club kid, MTV writer-producer, a peacemaker around the world, nun at a Vedanta convent, and student of Chassidic rabbis. This expansiveness lives in her poems. The book invites readers to reconsider prayer and blessing as an ongoing, fluid, language, holding space for the reverent and irreverent as prophetic.

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