Let Our Bodies Change the Subject

Finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Award  Finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize  Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic verses that disarm then strike, Jared Harél investigates our days through the keyhole of domesticity, through personal lyrics and cultural reckonings. Whether taking a family trip to Coney Isla