Misha Solomon: My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet, Kartoniert / Broschiert
My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet
- Publisher:
- Assembly Press, 03/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781771316675
- Item number:
- 12341787
- Volume:
- 96 Pages
- Weight:
- 186 g
- Format:
- 216 x 146 mm
- Thickness:
- 7 mm
- Release date:
- 17.3.2026
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
Two timelines intersect, weaving an alternate reality of queer ancestors, half-truths, domesticity, and desire in spite of past and present persecution.
What if the queer ancestor you always wondered about had really existed-and could speak to you across all time? When there's only one document to be found in the archive, can our misheard or half-remembered family stories be enough? My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet is a daring, erotic, and humorous exploration of queer longing and Jewish possibility at the turn of two centuries. In a captivating series of narrative poems, Misha Solomon entwines an alternate memoir of his great-grandfather in pre-Holocaust Romania with a contemporary gay life in Montreal. With profound vision, voice, and craft, Solomon sets a new and powerful precedent for speculative poetic histories, allowing intimacy to find a way through memories real, imagined, and desired.