The Red Door

"The Red Door is a finely observed, uniquely voiced collection that maps the dangerous terrain between brokenness and rebirth, which is dripping with blood, lit by prayer, and redolent with mystery."

-Gwydion Suilebhan, author of Cracked and Abstract Nude

"The Red Door, like its poet author Shawn C. Harris, transcends genres and identities. It is an exploration in crossing worlds. It brings together poetry and story telling, imagery and life events, spirit and body, the real and the fantastic, Jewish past and Jewish present, to spin one tale."

-Einat Wilf, author of My Israel, Our Generation and Telling Our Story

"The Red Door is the slit of light between two darknesses, not merely sampling Biblical verses and liturgical choruses (though it does that, too: "we are but dust and ashes v'imru amen") but adding new installments to the stories of antiquity. A sinister narrative is posed behind a lush canopy of poems, meshing the Jerusalem of Temple times with the Jerusalem of today with the uncertain prophecies that bounce around the backs of our heads as each of us wonders, am I the only one who hears this? No, Harris's poems whisper back. No, you are not."

-Matthue Roth, author of Never Mind the Goldbergs and My First Kafka