“I love Melanie Maier’s Poetry. Her poems are like glimpses and whispers of important remembered moments, and her imagery evokes gasps of amazement and delight.”
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“Wonderful to read this travel “diary” from an open-minded, clear-eyed poet who offers lyric snapshots of her journey. Each sight, each personal transaction is rendered lovely by the language — even when the view or the interaction may not be literally so. Brava!”
“Carl Sandburg provides an elegant description of lyric compositions like the ones found in Chapter and Verse. ‘A poem is like an echo asking a shadow to dance.’ This rich volume, a pastiche of the dance steps that post-modern Jews engage in with sacred texts, modern culture and ancient traditions, tugs at the hearts and minds of the reader, inviting them to an invigorating and enchanting ball.”
“Melanie Maier’s delicate and exquisitely rendered poems reveal their depth of the lived life, the nuances of those wisdoms that arrive only with the earned maturity of experience. This debut collection is a gracious and generous reckoning with the memories, difficulties and dreams we gather and sort along our many varied ways.”