Glance is a par­a­digm-shift­ing achieve­ment in Jew­ish poet­ics. Much of the book recounts the speaker’s deci­sion to raise her Black Jew­ish chil­dren in Israel to shield them from Amer­i­can racism. The col­lec­tion com­pli­cates this move with nuance that chal­lenges read­ers to ​“learn to live with such songs at such deci­bels.” ​“Beach Dip­tych” inte­grates an account by Pales­tin­ian poet Mah­mood Dar­wish and ​“Palin­ode to a New Year of Trees,” which speaks to Pales­tin­ian era­sure, is ​“attuned and open to quiver and agi­ta­tion in the under­sto­ry.” In ​“Inde­pen­dence Day,” the speak­er cel­e­brates Israeli Inde­pen­dence Day with oth­er Black Jews amidst a back­drop ​“radi­at­ing Pan-African red black green. The Lion of Judah. The fist.” In “[any giv­en day]” the speak­er notes that she moved from Amer­i­ca to Israel due to ​“an unspo­ken hope to extend child­hood” for her kids, but finds the same racism that she tried to escape when an Israeli police offi­cer mur­ders Solomon Teka, an eigh­teen-year-old Ethiopi­an Israeli Jew. Glance is essen­tial in its sub­ject mate­r­i­al, var­ied and breath­tak­ing in its poet­ics, and sin­gu­lar in its con­tri­bu­tion to Jew­ish poetry.