The Steam Sequence

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her work was included in Best American Poetry 2004. The Steam Sequence offers a journal into the mind of a Holocaust survivor in which past becomes present and a single woman struggles to locate herself. This book asks us to examine the silences and the spaces between memory and reality. "Breath, body, water, even wire seem unlikely candidates for eternal presence. But something that those name in this poem--a 'story' of inexplicable substance--will last forever"--Lyn Hejinian.

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She is the founder and co-curator of the Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, D.C. Her poems have been published in Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Runes Review, poemmemoirstory, Goodfoot, No Tell Motel, Wicked Alice, and anthologized in Best American Poetry 2004, Regrets Only (Little Pear Press) and Literary Lunch (Knoxville Writer's Guild).