Synopsis
Ravikovitch is one of the greatest Hebrew woman poets and a distinctive voice in the Israeli peace movement. Both mystical and political, these are visionary poems of loss and hope.
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About the Author
<b>Dahlia Ravikovitch</b>, who died in 2005 at age sixty-nine, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Hebrew literature and the Israeli peace movement. She spent most of her life in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Reviews
This new volume, which includes revised translations from Ravikovitch's earlier collection ( A Dress Of Fire , Menard Pr., 1976) as well as many new poems, confirms her reputation as one of the most important poets in Israel today. Ravikovitch displays a rare ability to personify nature and then identify with its loneliness: "I tell you, even rocks crack,/ and not because of age." In another poem, even ants grouped together to carry "half a dead fly" seem to manage better than the poet. Hers is a world of struggle, survival, endurance, loneliness, and doom, and though her poems might be rooted in biblical imagery, they cry out to women across all cultural barriers. The final poems, written after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, extend that same horrific cry far beyond the personal.
- Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
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