Refusenik

Name: Refusenik
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Lynn Melnick
ISBN: 9798347822706

Author: Lynn Melnick

Narrator: Lynn Melnick

Unabridged: 1 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: YesYes Books

Published: 03/10/2025

Categories: Nonfiction, Language Arts, Writing

Synopsis

In this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head-first through concentric waves of personal and generational trauma with her trademark fearlessness. Evincing a complex mind shaped by the late 20th century’s misplaced priorities, Refusenik interrogates misogyny and anti-Semitism across time and a shifting global landscape—from a football field in Los Angeles to a Russian shtetl to a beloved daughter’s Brooklyn bedroom. Variously unraveling and allowing for intricate tangles of anger, nostalgia and love, these agile poems furrow deeper into the terrain of Melnick’s much-celebrated earlier titles, arriving at a profound and pressured understanding of what it means to be a contemporary American. Audiobook recorded by JBI Library for inclusion in the Yetzirah Audio Poetry Series (YAPS!).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on March 02, 2022

Y’all. Y’ALL!!!! This slim volume of poetry is so abundantly full with feminist analysis and cultural criticism, with an eye toward her Jewish past and another toward our shared futures. I am beyond stunned that I have this book on hand because every page is pregnant with imagery, wonder, righteous......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 20, 2022

why can’t i give it 10 stars it deserves 10 stars......more

Goodreads review by Gia on January 27, 2024

Lynn Melnick's Refusenik is a breathtaking collection of poems that features the 80s, the body and Jewish culture. Writer Melnick is a gentle force of nature. I have been a fan since Landscapes ... . I will be re reading this year.......more

Goodreads review by Hot Redhead on September 14, 2023

Melnick has a mesmerizing poetic voice that combos authorial wisdom and vulnerability. We loved this collection so picked it for the Booktail's podcast. Hear the author chat craft and read from this book here: [URL not allowed] <3......more