Antiparallel In the River – Zoya Gurm

Zoya Gurm’s Antiparallel In the River is “written to the experiences of tenderness, transposition, and dread as they are felt in the body.” Zoya’s work is beautifully and achingly rendered–will make you want to wade in water practicing all the angles in which you can contort yourself. The poems contain multitudes: an ethereal tenderness and an anatomical soreness. Each poem carries with it a reflective armor and may bite if you are not completely guarded. Learn the many languages of cells and how they are both screaming and singing in unison.
 
Zoya Gurm is a writer based in Detroit, where she is currently pursuing her MD with interest in neurology and narrative medicine. Through her poetry and fiction, she examines the topics of migration, the occult, and the anatomical. Her recent work can be found in Contemporary Verse II, Clearline Zine, and The Michigan Daily, and she is the recipient of the 2023 Tompkins Prize in Poetry at Wayne State University. Connect with her on social media (@zoyagurm) or at her literary blog, zoreads.
 
Miriam Saperstein is a writer, arts educator, and ritual crafter working with decomposition and Jewish ritual histories. A 2023 Sachs Program for Arts Innovation grantee, Miriam has received fellowships and awards through Michigan in the World, New Voices / Jewish Currents, the Hopwoods Program at the University of Michigan and the Tompkins Poetry Prize at Wayne State University. Their work has appeared in Planet Detroit, The Index, ctrl + v, Pollux Journal, and the Radical Jewish Calendar. They live in Philadelphia with the love of their life.
 
 
24 pages. Hand sewn. Cover laser printed on craft card-stock
Originally printed October 2023 with formal release on November 2nd, 2023
Illustrations throughout by Miriam Saperstein
Layout and design by Chelsea Tadeyeske and Edie Roberts
 
 
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