Kamenetz's poems whirl and shake on the page. He is the poet of the living history of unspeakable names and his book...sings with dark wit the tales of tough family spirits.

—Louise Erdrich, author of Love Medicine and The Night Watchman.

These are very exciting and original poems...a secret and almost intimate meeting place of English and Hebrew.

—Yehuda Amichai, author of A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 and Open Closed Open: Poems