Ava Nathaniel Winter is the author of Transgenesis, selected by Sean Hill for the 2023 National Poetry Series, and the poetry chapbook Safe House. Her work has appeared in The Baffler, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry International, Room, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She served as a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University and received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Winter holds an MFA from the Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
I. TRANSGENESIS
Torah Study
Transgenesis
Midrash
Playing with the Jew
The Letter Read
Confession
Puławy
To Ask Our Bodies
Playing with the Jew
II. ARCHIVED LIGHT
Lucky Jew
What the Suitcase Bearing My Family Name Might Have Contained When It
Arrived at Auschwitz
Rollermills Antique Mall
The Fight
WWII German SS Division Soup Spoon “800 Silver,” $250
WWII Concentration Camp Sleeve Patch Un-Cut, $75
Archived Light
Again I Shape Dough in Hours Set Aside for Writing
III. PLAYING WITH THE JEW
WWII SS Wiking Division Badge, $55
Hitler Youth Dagger RZM M7/13, $550 Firm
A Brass Band Heralds the Institute’s Destruction
Archived Light
WWII German SS Lebensborn Stickpin, $30
To a Jazz Singer
Snow
Jasmin et Cigarette
Lament with Cello Accompaniment
Notes
Acknowledgments
