Residual Synonyms for the Name of God by Lewis Freedman The Poetry Business a million silver spiders play

a million silver spiders play dead

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

The Sound We Make Ourselves: Poems 1971-2016 was published by Eyewear in 2016

the sparrowhawk

Catherine Edmunds

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God by Lewis Freedman The Poetry Business a million silver spiders playIn 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