Rodger Kamenetz is author of sixteen books of poetry and prose including The Jew in the Lotus (Harper 1994), Stalking Elijah (Harper 1997), The History of Last Night’s Dream (Harper 2007) and Burnt Books (Schocken/Nextbook 2010). His books of poetry include The Missing Jew: Poems 1976-2022 (Ben Yehuda Press, 2023) and The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern 2003). Forthcoming is Seeing into the Life of Things (Monkfish).