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Title: After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace
Publisher: Dryad Press
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0931848946
ISBN 13: 9780931848940
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Weight: 17 ounces

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Despite all the politics, this anthology manages to showcase two strengths of contemporary Israeli poetry: a stark simplicity and an ability to manipulate familiar Biblical scenes or phrases. Most importantly, this anthology shows American readers a whole slew of poets they might not know because they are never or rarely translate: Maya Bejerano, Chamutal Bar-Yosef, Aryeh Sivan, Eli Alon, and the book's editor, Moshe Dor. For an American reader, these poems of war, history, and Biblical reference are particularly fresh." Aviya Kushner, Harvard Review "Great poetry doesn't necessarily get made out of important subjects. But this is an urgent subject and the poems address it eloquently. War-weariness, piercing sadness, hope." Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World "Despite the formidable obstacles of language, the tragedy of war and hope for peace, the alef and tav of Israeli life, shine through this moving collection. Aaron Leibel, Washington Jewish Week Sixty-five Israeli poets write of their despair over war and their fierce craving for peace. One reviewer wrote "the tragedy of war and hopes for peace, the alef and tav of Israeli life, shine through this moving collection." Among the 35 translators of poems in this collection are the late William Matthews, Henry Taylor, Stephen Mitchell, Linda Pastan, Jane Hirshfield, Myra Sklarew and Shirley Kaufman.- Aryeh Sivan To Live in the Land of Israel To be cocked like a rifle, a hand on your gun, to walk a tight, hard line, even when your cheeks have filled with dust, and your flesh is falling off, and your eyes Can no longer focus on the target. They say that a cocked gun is bound to go off. Well, it isn't. Anything can happen in this Land of Israel. a broken firing pin, a rusty spring, or an unexpectedly canceled order, as was the case with Abraham on Mount Moriah. Translated by Hillel Halkin in memory of Tsvi Hurvitz, pioneer, army commander, and bereaved father

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