Rachel Heimowitz's collection of poems, What the Light Reveals, is a remarkable debut. This brilliant, sobering, often harrowing yet always lyrical account of life in Israel is also a meditation on faith and family, both immediate family and the larger human family as well. As Rachel Heimowitz reckons her place as a woman in a time and place of war, we find ourselves, as readers, enveloped in one of the most intimate and dramatic sequences of poems in recent years. This is a book to cherish.
-David St. John