Paperback. Gabriel Levin's fourth collection moves from the Mediterranean world that has engaged his imagination for the last thirty years, to the sombre title sequence written in the shadow of Israel's bombardment and incursion into Gaza in 2008. These striking poems and their prose commentary ('The Fathers are Watching') navigate between the depredations of war and the mind's need to disengage itself from its surroundings. The final section of this articulate and compassionate book is a fifteen-sonnet cycle dispatched from the shores of an unnamed island, which could be everyman's abode, in search of what might lie yonder. Features poems and their prose commentary ("The Fathers are Watching") that navigate between the depredations of war and the mind's need to disengage itself from its surroundings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: To These Dark Steps (Paperback)
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0856464449
ISBN 13: 9780856464447
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Gabriel Levin’s fourth collection moves from the Mediterranean world that has engaged his imagination for the last thirty years, to the sombre title sequence written in the shadow of Israel’s bombardment and incursion into Gaza in 2008. These striking poems and their prose commentary (The Fathers are Watching) navigate between the depredations of war and the mind’s need to disengage itself from its surroundings. The final section of this articulate and compassionate book is a fifteen-sonnet cycle dispatched from the shores of an unnamed island, which could be everyman’s abode, in search of what might lie yonder.

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Levin’s searching spirit deals compassionately and memorably with the mind’s need to disengage itself from the depredations of war.

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