For the Future of Girls

For the Future of Girls is at once family album, inventory of memories, a reckoning with time, and a plea for love to last. Lisa Grunberger's vibrant and meticulously detailed poems lay bare Jewish histories where trauma, loss, and misogyny take both intimate and collective shape. These poems refuse to forget, and their refusal offers a light for our daughters.-Maya Pindyck, American poet and visual artist, Director of writing and a professor at Moore College of Art and Design.To the implacable presence of the collective past, Lisa Grunberger's poems adds the poignancy of a singular present continually slipping away, in poems that are pungent, often audacious, sometimes elegiac, laced with a sharp irony...Here, too, is exuberance, an appetite for life carried in the cadenced lines that, like a runner or a dancer, open the space their movement creates. These vibrant poems provide intimate access to the passionate consciousness of a contemporary urban woman, as her embodied, eloquent voice recovers the dead, engages our moment, and gives shape even to the unborn.-Eleanor Wilner, MacArthur Award recipient, author of The Girl with Bees in Her Hair. Lisa Grunberger gives us a perceptive eye in evocative poems in which an acute consciousness translates into perfect metaphors and surprising images. . . . These poems could only have been written by a woman, a woman deeply conscious of her condition even as her words soar beyond it. These are poems to be read and reread. I believe the years to come will bring us much more of worth from the author.-Margaret Randall, poet, feminist, photographer, oral historian, and social activist.