All of Torah is a Song (or a Poem) - Book Release, Music and Midrash

Name: All of Torah is a Song (or a Poem) - Book Release, Music and Midrash
Start: 2024-11-23T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-23T22:00:00-05:00
Location: 1311 South Juniper Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19147

Schedule

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1311 South Juniper Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19147 | Philadelphia, PA

Come celebrate the publication of Eden Pearlstein's debut book of poetry, "Nothing is for Everyone." With poetry, music and feminist midrash provided by Alicia Jo Rabins (Girls in Trouble).
free and open to All, donations welcome.
Eden Pearlstein's Nothing Is for Everyone is "a wise and energizing debut collection" (Peter Cole) suffused with music, mysticism, tenderness, and wit. Deeply, devotedly hybrid in influence and expression, this wild collection of poetry draws on rabbinic linguistics and kabbalistic meditation, free jazz and hip-hop, Marcel Duchamp and the Magid of Mezritch—all to reveal the permutational quality of language itself: its instability, resistance to containment, and divine fault lines.
Eden Pearlstein is a poet, performer, chronic collaborator, and cofounder of Ayin Press. Over the past two decades he has created an eclectic portfolio of audio, visual, textual, and curatorial works and projects. As an author and editor, Eden has conceptually and creatively contributed to over 50 books of contemporary Jewish spirituality, art, and literature, including the gallery catalog for In/Flux: On Influence, Inspiration, Transmission, and Transformation (with Zahar Vaks for Oretega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY); the illustrated chapbooks Taste and See: A Psychedelic Pesach Companion and Indwelling: An Earth-Based Sukkot Companion (with Madison Margolin and Jessica Tamar Deutsch); and the artbook Speechless (with Cannupa Hanska Luger for the Nevada Museum of Art). Nothing Is for Everyone is Eden’s first book of poems. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children

Alicia Jo Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. She combines words, music, ritual and performance to create works of experimental beauty exploring the intersection of ancient wisdom texts, feminism, and everyday life. Rabins' debut collection of poetry, Divinity School, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize; her second poetry collection, Fruit Geode, was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award. As a musician and performer, she is the creator and performer of Girls in Trouble, an indie-folk song cycle about the complicated lives of Biblical women with accompanying curriculum, and A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, which began as a one-woman chamber-rock opera and was adapted into an award-winning independent feature film.