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A Speaker is a Wilderness
Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole
Anna Goodman Herrick

9781958972373 | 1958972371
Monkfish Book Publishing (Consortium Book Sales & Ingram Publishing Services)
Trade Paperback
Pub Date: June 4, 2024
Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
$17.99 USD, $23.99 CAD, £12.99 GBP, €15.99 EUR
96 pages

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Anna Goodman Herrick works at the intersection of spirituality, sacred words, and human rights. She is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist. Anna has performed her poetry across the U.S., including at the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series, presenting “contemporary creativity that echoes Dickinson’s own revolutionary poetic voice.” She has performed at the El Paso border for Artist Uprising with V (formerly Eve Ensler), and Bloomsday on Broadway. Her recent poetry is included in Rattle, The Los Angeles Press, and The Ekphrastic Review.

She has created work for television and branded content for Sony, ABC Family, Oprah Winfrey Network, and MTV and shared her work at the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and in film, stage, museums and galleries nationwide. For more information visit: annagoodmanherrick.com and Instagram @annagoodmanherrick.

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“Anna Goodman Herrick revels in beauty and sacredness, a testament to defiantly vowing to not live in fear. She writes of a new beginning, informed by tragedy but refusing to be defined by it: ‘We opened / the windows of ourselves, sent the night out searching / for our collective liberation like a raven / for the end of the flood.’”
 —Kara Lewis, Write Poetry

“Listening to Anna Goodman Herrick read a poem made the hair on my arm stand up. I wonder if we could measure the effects of good poetry on electrodermal activity.”
—Timothy Green, Editor, Rattle Magazine

“Performer, poet, and filmmaker Anna Goodman Herrick brings to her collection a deep knowledge of Jewish topics and a bold, imaginative palette. Her poems affirm and celebrate our power to reimagine ourselves and the world.” - Stephanie Barbe Hammer, The Jewish Book Council

“Anna Goodman Herrick is a rising star, a poet, and a bard well beyond her years in wisdom and vision. Her book A Speaker Is a Wilderness brings tears of recognition and awe to my eyes every time I open it.” 
—Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, author of Wounds into Wisdom

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