Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Merle Bachman's BLOOD PARTY is a remarkable memoir, told in fragments, interruptions in ways that prohibit any fixed retelling. In it, the impossibility of telling becomes the story: of ancestry, family, and a mother's silence, pieced-together in a poetry that is always vibrating yet never arrives." Kristin Prevallet

"Memory has its own architecture, its own geography. Yet, as Merle Bachman demonstrates in BLOOD PARTY, these are mutable stretching and contracting within the space of experience: strafing events to get at their illogic and yet/memory,...