Eretz: Jewish Poems for Palestine Zine by Leo Rodriguez
This piece was featured in the May 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“The state of Israel does not operate by Jewish values and principles., it does not speak for me, and it does not get to impose its definition of Judaism upon the rest of us. I feel a strong obligation as a Jew to loudly declare my counternarrative of what being Jewish means.
This collection is that counternarrative. Herein are poems about Eretz Yisroel, poems about antisemitism, poems about being a queer Jew in an increasingly fascist world. Herein are poems of tikkun olam.” - Leo Rodriguez
8.5” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece was featured in the May 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“The state of Israel does not operate by Jewish values and principles., it does not speak for me, and it does not get to impose its definition of Judaism upon the rest of us. I feel a strong obligation as a Jew to loudly declare my counternarrative of what being Jewish means.
This collection is that counternarrative. Herein are poems about Eretz Yisroel, poems about antisemitism, poems about being a queer Jew in an increasingly fascist world. Herein are poems of tikkun olam.” - Leo Rodriguez
8.5” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece was featured in the May 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“The state of Israel does not operate by Jewish values and principles., it does not speak for me, and it does not get to impose its definition of Judaism upon the rest of us. I feel a strong obligation as a Jew to loudly declare my counternarrative of what being Jewish means.
This collection is that counternarrative. Herein are poems about Eretz Yisroel, poems about antisemitism, poems about being a queer Jew in an increasingly fascist world. Herein are poems of tikkun olam.” - Leo Rodriguez
8.5” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Leo Rodriguez (they/them) is a neurodivergent Jewish nonbinary lesbian writer and artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They spend their nights working in technical theatre and their days in political canvassing, and time in-between listening to punk rock and reading sci-fi. Their work has been featured in Snowflake Magazine, Messy Misfits Zine, oranges journal, and elsewhere.
