Before You Kneels My Silence

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Jewish Studies. "Within an absolutely concrete framework, the author of this book gives shape to those intangible things that exist in our daily lives. Following a fantastic tradition of American literature, Steinberg gets into the greatest of mysteries through the most mundane elements of daily life. He makes it possible for a phone call, a synagogue visit, or a thermometer crashing to the floor and the mercury spillage that follows to become allegories for those immense celestial questions. Never before as now...does a text show for me—furthermore, in a simultaneous way—the author's both existence in and absence from this world."—Mario Bellatin