East of Time is the most honest book about the nature of humankind that I have ever read.... Reading it has changed my life. - Alex Miller ""This exquisite memoir chronicles suffering, but also asserts and epitomizes the human spirit's power of creative regeneration. East of Time is a masterpiece."" - Richard Freadman ""East of Time and Lives and Embers are clearly poet's books, advancing not by plot and character psychology, but by image and language. Nevertheless, both manage to create a complete world and to entice the reader into that world.... Part of Rosenberg's importance, I think, is that, though a witness and a survivor, he is not shy about placing art on a hierarchical scale above historical testimony, defying the self-censoring wisdom of the Adornos and the Weisels, and the fears of those who worry that, in this way, he plays into the hands of the deniers. In this way, he serves as a hinge figure between the memoirists and the fictionists, honoring both."" - Joesph Skibell, author of A Blessing on the Moon