The Storehouses of the Snow

Bitter and brilliant, ardent and persistent, The Storehouses of the Snow is a book to read--no fooling--alongside the Book of Job. Every poem here made me catch my breath in astonishment at Philip Memmer's bold imagination and the sacred relentlessness of his quest. -- Alicia Ostriker, author of The Book of Seventy In his delightfully audacious fourth book, Philip Memmer addresses a deity who is "always ceasing / to be, and then ceasing / to cease to be. In Psalms that fuse contemporary language and wit with scriptural gesture, Memmer knits a sweater for God and presents Him with new "by-laws for their unsatisfactory relationship; in recast biblical stories and invented parables, he foregrounds God's absence and sanctioned destructions. But the poet's disappointment with the one he calls Father is tempered by wistfulness and wisdom; even before the book's surprising final turn, he offers this: "you must / find the kingdom empty, / then make it yours. -- Martha Collins, author of Blue Front In The Storehouses of the Snow, Philip Memmer--with a storyteller's gift for intrigue, wit and compassion--gives us imaginative and compelling variations based on well-known Biblical passages and phrases. These poems are graceful, heady, ironic, full of feeling and a Job-like questioning intelligence. An impressive follow-up to his prize-winning Lucifer. -- Peter Makuck, author of Long Lens: New & Selected Poems

Written by an award-winning author of three books of poems, including "Lucifer: A Hagiography", "Threat of Pleasure", and "Sweetheart, Baby, Darling". He lives in upstate New York.

"Bitter and brilliant, ardent and persistent, The Storehouses of the Snow is a book to readÑno foolingÑalongside the Book of Job. Every poem here made me catch my breath in astonishment at Philip MemmerÕs bold imagination and the sacred relentless-ness of his quest."