Your Scheherazade

Michaela Tashjian's, YOUR SCHEHERAZADE, is a book of enchantment. Like the Scheherazade of the Thousand and One Nights, Tashjian conjures a cycle of enticements. But hers are songs. Hymns of praise and pleading, of longing and wonder. Soft whispers intoned at a hairsbreadth. The poet wants to be caught as much as to catch, and her snares are spider silk. Achingly light. Bestowed like blessings. One should not merely read these poems, but breathe them in for the scent of redemptive...
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Michaela Tashjian's, YOUR SCHEHERAZADE, is a book of enchantment. Like the Scheherazade of the Thousand and One Nights, Tashjian conjures a cycle of enticements. But hers are songs. Hymns of praise and pleading, of longing and wonder. Soft whispers intoned at a hairsbreadth. The poet wants to be caught as much as to catch, and her snares are spider silk. Achingly light. Bestowed like blessings. One should not merely read these poems, but breathe them in for the scent of redemptive promise that resides on every page. --Mark Ari, author of THE SHOEMAKER'S TALE