A fascinating blend of poetry and science, Ben-Oni's poems are precisely crafted, like a surgeon sewing a complicated stitch, moving through the multiverses of family, religion and discovery itself. The book culminates in an ancient Jewish Idea about "Efes," which is Modern Hebrew for "zero" but also in mystical texts, means "nullification" and "concealment." Ultimately, Efes becomes a process of transformation for the speaker, revealing as well that the closer humanity gets to understanding this mysterious force, it inevitably changes the riddle-and us along with it.

Author: Rosebud Ben-Oni
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 03/09/2021
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781948579155


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 04/19/2021

About the Author
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellowship. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, among others. Her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by The Kenyon Review Online. Her second collection of poems, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was selected as Agape Editions' EDITORS' CHOICE, and was published in 2019. She writes for The Kenyon Review blog. Find her at 7TrainLove.org.