Between These Borders Wanders a Golem shows great variation in form, method, and visual composition. Language is often used to compose visually, e.g., handwritten diary entries, hybrid pieces combining prose and verse, using text style and font as design elements to add thematic depth-all of it orienting the reader to the anxiety of all of the speakers, those wandering Golems, all seeking out shape in their misshapen lives amid climate crisis, loneliness, and covid. In the opening poem the speaker asks "What quickens?" Time quickens, grief quickens, feeling quickens, seeking quickens. And so does language and the revelatory prowess the language expresses. Ahuva S. Zasiavsky has made an incredible first book.

Jay Ponteri, author of Someone Told Me

These stories, imaginings and startling images prove zaslavsky's power and command of language, as well as a deep understanding of human connectivity. This potent work is charged with a constant state of in-betweenness, of curiosity, of never-ending continuums, all weaving a sophisticated dialectic that nourished and profoundly moved me.

-John Sibley Williams, author of skin memory