Shiva Moon
“Intimate and meditative, Shiva Moon has the quality of prayer, yet it’s also the journal of a harrowing year, filled with mourning, recollection, and a struggle for spiritual equilibrium. With her celebrated gifts for pictorial and lyrical language (leavened here with Hebrew terms), Maxine Silverman enters the darkness of her beloved father’s death and seeks a way to accommodate his loss. Everything around her keeps changing: the moon, her garden, her children, even her absent father who grows more vivid with memory. The only constant is the momentous presence of God, glorious but silent. This is a wise, moving book for every reader—and a necessary book for anyone who’s known loss.”
—Joan Murray
To read selected poems from Shiva Moon, click on title:
North Star
What I Learned So Far
Shiva Moon
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Palimpsest
“These are visionary poems of heart but also of spirit. Each is a reckoning with wonders concealed in plain view, and Silverman is a poet assured in her calling….”
~Ann Lauinger
“A marvelous achievement…a beautiful book.”
~Molly Peacock
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Transport of the Aim
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The Best of Toadlily Press
“We try to create a theatre where imagination and conversation can occur. A place that is not about you and me, but about us. Poets and readers collaborate to carry truth to the word and the world.”
-from the forward by Toadlilly editors Myrna Goodman and Meredith Trede
Desire Path
“Desire Path is a masterful collection.” -Kate Knapp Johnson
“Maxine Silverman has a terrific ear for our language…One does not make that kind of music by accident. Even her syntax is musical…Read these poems, reread them out loud.” -from the foreword by Thomas Lux