Residual Synonyms for the Name of God by Lewis Freedman The Poetry Business in any language

in any language

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summon up memory and conjure it into a firework display of metaphoric brilliance

Priscila Uppal

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God by Lewis Freedman The Poetry Business in any languageIn classical rabbinic literature the unpronounceable name of God produces and sacralizes a host of synonyms around what cant be said. Residual Synonyms for the Name of God performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past. Lewis Freedman has heretically rewritten the work of his ancestors to create an annotated index of this inherited structure, in which our contemporary drive