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Bridging the Divide
Chava Pinchas-Cohen
Translated from Hebrew by Sharon Hart-Green
Bridging the Divide, by Chava Pinchas-Cohen and translated by Sharon Hart-Green from Hebrew, brings Israel Hebrew-language poetry into English through the desire for connection across spiritual, political, and intimate distances. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for bridges, thresholds, broken speech, and the effort to make a poem cross what ordinary language cannot, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Bridging the Divide belongs in the translated poetry library because it frames Hebrew poetry as a practice of relation rather than a sealed national field.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9780815610540