Poetry. Jewish Studies. This first collection of deeply spiritual poetry explores the longings of the soul and tests the penetrable boundary between the living world and the ethereal. Sarah Lantz articulates complex emotions in a manner that makes poetry accessible while remaining elusive, heartbreaking and yet hopeful, romantic yet startlingly real. She creates a world in which small, ordinary moments posses elements of divinity, moving through time and space to discover "all I knew before I was born." Lantz explores her past and the past of the family members killed in the holocaust while working to make sense of the present. Sarah Lantz is a new voice offering sensual, lyrical poetry and dazzling imagery with Rumi's sense of the divine. "A strong voice in a dark time, Lantz's raw, worldly, rambunctious poems traverse oceans and deserts, time, space, history, geography, and ferry us to other shores. Read 'Oranges and the West Bank' or 'Making Do: A Fable' to see 'where else we are.'"--Dorianne Laux.