The Floating Door

Synopsis

M.e. Silverman's The Floating Door Moves From The Peculiar And Vivid Details Of Growing Up Jewish In America To A Series Of Musings About The Last Jew In Kabul, Over Whom The Sun Snaps Shut/ Like A Casket. Noah And Abraham And Isaac Vie For Attention In A Child's Mind With Schoolyard Rhymes Like Step On A Crack, Break Your Mother's Back. A Menorah Takes Center Stage, Then A Captain America Glass. Throughout, There's A Daring Coupling Of Whimsy And Pathos. Shoes From The Piles In The Holocaust Museum, Rise Leisurely, Puppets On Strings To Sweep Through The Air Like Astaire And Rogers. --jacqueline Osherow