Wing

The inaugural recipient of the N.C. Germanacos Poetry Award, Wing is a poetry collection exploring repair, desire, devotion, memory, and spiritual reckoning.

About the Author

Linda Stern Zisquit is a poet and translator, was born in the U.S. and has lived in Israel since 1978. Wing is her seventh poetry collection. Her previous books include Korah’s Daughter, Return from Elsewhere and Havoc: New & Selected Poems. Among her translations of Hebrew language poets are Wild Light by Yona Wallach and These Mountains by Rivka Miriam. Associate Professor (emerita) and for many years poetry coordinator for the Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, she founded and runs Artspace, a gallery in Jerusalem representing local artists.


Praise for Wing

“In a land painfully divided against itself, Linda Zisquit has straddled the faultline of seemingly irreconcilable worlds: sacrament and betrayal, custom and deviance, duty and desire. Drawing deeply on Jewish lore, the poems attest to the work of tikkun or repair in their intense self-interrogation: ‘Twine, /this collision of forces, pulling me upward/to flower, and down to a network/of knotty roots.’” 
—Gabriel Levin, on Wing

Book Details
76 pages | Paperback | 5.31 x 8.27 in. | ISBN: 978-1-915553-72-0
Publication date: Winter 2026
Author photo: Debbi Cooper