The Book of Isaac

Aidan Semmens Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-373-2 (paperback, $14); 978-1-60235-374-9 (PDF, $9.99). © 2013 by Parlor Press. 83 pages. Watch and hear Aidan Semmens read from his latest collection at the Molly Bloom 1 event on 26 August 2020. < Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Reviews Peter Riley on Narrative Poetry The Fortnightly Review The Book of Isaac is surely one of the most fascinating books of poetry to be published this year, with its meld of fervent enthusiasm and meticulous wordsmithery. It is never less than engaging and the interplay of factual and apocalyptic can be impressive.—Peter Riley Friday Pick (B O D Y: Poetry. Prose. Word.) by Stephan Delbos, 8 February 2013. Description The Book of Isaac is a sequence of 56 “distressed,” or damaged, sonnets in which Aidan Semmens endeavors to distil something of the Russian-Jewish experience from the history of his own f