Bridging the Divide by Chava Pinchas-Cohen and translated by Sharon Hart-Green

This is poetry from Israel.

Bridging the Divide by Chava Pinchas-Cohen translated by Sharon Hart-Green is published by Syracuse University Press. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78081561054E12.

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.

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