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Overview"Winner of the 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award presented by the League of Canadian Poets A collaboration between poet Alisha Kaplan and artist Tobi Aaron Kahn, Qorbanot—the Hebrew word for ""sacrificial offerings""—explores the concept of sacrifice, offering a new vision of an ancient practice. A dynamic dialogue of text and image, the book is a poetic and visual exegesis on Leviticus, a visceral and psychological exploration of ritual offerings, and a conversation about how notions of sacrifice continue to resonate in the twenty-first century. Both from Holocaust survivor families, Kaplan and Kahn deal extensively with the Holocaust in their work. Here, the modes of poetry and art express the complexity of belief, the reverberations of trauma, and the significance of ritual. In the poems, the speaker, offspring of burnt offerings, searches for meaning in her grandparents' experiences and in the long tradition of Orthodox Judaism in which she was raised. Kahn's paintings on handmade paper, drawn from decades of his career as an artist, have not previously been exhibited or published. They reflect his quest to distill a legacy of trauma and loss into enduring memory. With a foreword by James E. Young and essays by Ezra Cappell, Lori Hope Lefkovitz, and Sasha Pimentel, the book presents new directions for thinking about what sacrifice means in religious, social, and personal contexts, and harkens back to foundational traditions, challenging them in reimagined and artistic ways." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alisha Kaplan , Tobi Aaron KahnPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438482927ISBN 10: 1438482922 Pages: 152 Publication Date: 01 April 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword by James E. Young Part I Study for QUADAR Grain Offering Part II Study for YMNAH Guilt Offering Peace Offering Study for VEIKUT Study for EIKA Masada Offering Study for AKYLA Guilt Offering Guilt Offering Study for OLYH Study for YSKHA Peace Offering vow Study for KYNH v. 2 Part III Study for TYLA Prelinguistic Offering Sin Offering Study for SAKEN ABI Sin Offering Study for YDRA Offering from Which There Is No Turning Back Study for AYALA v. 1 Offering of the Unclassifiables Study for MUKAPH Study for ORTYA Burnt Offering vow Study for ARYNH Part IV Study for MYRR Sin Offering Grain Offering Study for AHMAM Sin Offering Study for GHAMA Study for ESALH Offering in Which an Angel Appears to Moses in a Blaze of Fire from the Midst of a Bush Study for SHAARH Sin Offering Study for EKHEV Burnt Offering Offering to the Lost Poet Rosemary Tonks Study for AHDU Study for JHYA v. 3 Heave Offering Burnt Offering Study for UPILH vow Study for KADYH Part V Study for RYSTA Heirlooms Offering Guilt Offering Study for ZYRHA v. 3 Offering to My Mother Study for TZAAK Study for KESER Burnt Offering Burnt Offering Study for KANAKI Study for CKIYA Burnt Offering Dinner Table Offering Study for AERAH vow Study for KHYTA Part VI Study for AKAMU Offering of Ten Dresses Study for QINTA v. 3 Offering to Azazel Offering for Béla Rubinstein Study for KETUBA Study for AGAREH Grain Offering Offering in Which the Speaker Transcends to the Third Person Study for IYHAN vow Study for ARA ILAM v. 3 Study for MYSHA Salt Offering Orientation Offering Study for YETZIRA v. 4 Offering of Seven Heavens Study for LEHU Study for BYKOT Offering in the Holy of Holies Part VII Avodah Study for STARHA v. 1 Essays Too Long a Sacrifice Ezra Cappell In the Spaces Between Lori Hope Lefkovitz What We Can Offer Sasha Pimentel Acknowledgments List of Images About the Authors and ContributorsReviewsKaplan and Kahn's Qorbanot is beautiful in the imagining, in the words and the pictures, that render the paradox of life and death, and the spaces between who we have been and wish to be; Judaism as it has been and is yet to be; in constraint and freedom, longing and loss, the sometimes delicious, sometimes suffocating aroma of smoke, and the bittersweet tastes of grain and guilt. It is about the freight of inheritance and the complexity of loving one's own blood. - From the essay by Lori Hope Lefkovitz Qorbanot is a vivid counterpoint between sensually anchored poems and evocatively abstract images. A few uttered lines here, a few painted lines there, make for a provocative artistic-as well as spiritual-offering. - Annette Insdorf, author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust These are meaty works-both poems and paintings alike. Not grisly, not violent, but thick with pain and perseverance. They are beautiful in complicated, interconnected ways, siphoned diligently from deep experience, whether personal, familial, or historical. Together, Kaplan's words and Kahn's images are indelible. - Aaron Rosen, Director, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary Kaplan and Kahn's Qorbanot is beautiful in the imagining, in the words and the pictures, that render the paradox of life and death, and the spaces between who we have been and wish to be; Judaism as it has been and is yet to be; in constraint and freedom, longing and loss, the sometimes delicious, sometimes suffocating aroma of smoke, and the bittersweet tastes of grain and guilt. It is about the freight of inheritance and the complexity of loving one's own blood. - from the essay by Lori Hope Lefkovitz Qorbanot is a vivid counterpoint between sensually anchored poems and evocatively abstract images. A few uttered lines here, a few painted lines there, make for a provocative artistic-as well as spiritual-offering. - Annette Insdorf, author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust These are meaty works-both poems and paintings alike. Not grisly, not violent, but thick with pain and perseverance. They are beautiful in complicated, interconnected ways, siphoned diligently from deep experience, whether personal, familial, or historical. Together, Kaplan's words and Kahn's images are indelible. - Aaron Rosen, Director, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary Alisha Kaplan and Tobi Aaron Kahn's Qorbanot: Offerings is a gift of candour, scholarship, history, and future. Its substantial, glossy pages relax open (on a table, a lap, into the reader's palms) to insist that we take time to witness its shimmering dialogue between poet and painter. - Understorey Magazine Crimson blood platelets form the cover of Alisha Kaplan's Qorbanot-symbols of bloodlines, sacrifices, and the sanguine flow of poetry and painting. Yet these platelets signify far more in this debut collection of poems, which are illustrated by the layered brushstrokes of Tobi Kahn. Their collaboration colours the words and gives voice to abstract expressionism, while several inclusive and incisive essays fill in blanks of meaning. - The Miramichi Reader In her new, acutely perceptive, richly illustrated book of verse, the poet Alisha Kaplan thinks through the physical and psychological implications of sacrifice based on her own experiences, family history, joys and sorrows, physicality and spirituality ... It is an elegantly published volume with several sections: not only the poems themselves, but evocative abstract artwork by Tobi Aaron Kahn, along with critical essays by literary scholars and critics. An illuminating introduction is also included. SUNY Press has given us a book that is a pleasure to look at, hold, and benefit from, just like a well-formed vessel in a temple. - The Forward The discreet beauty of this edition announces the quality of the poetry. Steeped in Jewish religious tradition, the book is divided into 'studies' and 'offerings.' Reverent, simple yet layered, it poses questions, via everyday life, about orthodoxy versus personal freedom ... There is something compelling about a poet who quietly knows exactly what she wants, and hews to her community of faith, neither provoking nor letting herself get worked up. The paintings impress like runes, ceramic tiles, or brilliant dream visions, satisfying in themselves, yet an echo of the poet's coloratura. - Caesura Kaplan and Kahn's Qorbanot is beautiful in the imagining, in the words and the pictures, that render the paradox of life and death, and the spaces between who we have been and wish to be; Judaism as it has been and is yet to be; in constraint and freedom, longing and loss, the sometimes delicious, sometimes suffocating aroma of smoke, and the bittersweet tastes of grain and guilt. It is about the freight of inheritance and the complexity of loving one's own blood. - from the essay by Lori Hope Lefkovitz Qorbanot is a vivid counterpoint between sensually anchored poems and evocatively abstract images. A few uttered lines here, a few painted lines there, make for a provocative artistic-as well as spiritual-offering. - Annette Insdorf, author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust These are meaty works-both poems and paintings alike. Not grisly, not violent, but thick with pain and perseverance. They are beautiful in complicated, interconnected ways, siphoned diligently from deep experience, whether personal, familial, or historical. Together, Kaplan's words and Kahn's images are indelible. - Aaron Rosen, Director, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary Author InformationAlisha Kaplan is a poet who lives in Toronto, Canada. This is her first book. Tobi Aaron Kahn is a painter, sculptor, and Professor of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts. His art is the subject of several books, including Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn, by Emily Bilski. He lives in New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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