My poetry memoir, EVERYTHING THAWS, is now available from Ben Yehuda Press! This book has been a long time coming, and it contains some of the most personal work I have ever written. It has migrations, and permafrost, and many Gulag stories, and an ice dragon. It’s a very Jewish book.

You can order the book directly from the publisher with free shipping within the US! They also have a trans visibility sale ongoing until the end of tonight.

It is also available at major retailers like Amazon – or if you are interested in supporting independent bookstores (which I recommend!), I suggest buying through Bookshop.org. Both of these are associate links, meaning I receive a small commission if you buy through them.

Here are some blurbs the book has received, and the publisher’s page has even more.

“R.B. Lemberg’s memoir-in-poetry is full of glacier-sharp truths, and moments revealed between words like bodies beneath melting permafrost. As it becomes increasingly plain how deeply our world is shaped by war and climate change and grief and anger, articulating that shape feels urgent and necessary and painful and healing. Lemberg refuses to look away from people and systems that demand that we suppress ourselves—our words, our religions, our bodies, our queerness—and through their keen observation shows how we can insist on being ourselves anyway.”
—Ruthanna Emrys, author, A Half-Built Garden

“In Everything Thaws, bodies and memories break through the (supposed) permafrost. R. B. Lemberg’s haunting poetic cycle is unsparing and keenly observed. Tracing their path from Ukraine to the Vorkuta GULAG, Hungary, Israel, and the USA, Lemberg crafts an unforgettable cartography of trauma, Jewishness, gender, war, and family history. This book expertly traverses dangerous ground. Children play in forests littered with bombs, and life-saving bridges disappear in snowstorms. In such terrain, a wrong step could mean death, yet there is no choice but to keep moving. Against cruelties, enforced silences, and the weight of generational horror, what can Lemberg do except “put it all into poems, / or, when the guilt gets too much, into turnips”? The thaw may be disastrous, but it must be faced, and Lemberg masterfully holds our gaze.”
—Izzy Wasserstein, author of All The Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From

Here are copies of the book on my desk, and and an excerpt follows the photo.

A small stack of three copies of Everything Thaws: a poetic cycle by R.B. Lemberg on my desk.

In other news, I hope you consider voting for my work in the Locus awards until April 15! Anyone can vote. The Unbalancing is included in First Novel and Geometries of Belonging in Collections.

Thank you for reading, and stay tuned for more news!

 – R.B. Lemberg

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