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Frayed Light
Yonatan Berg
Translated from Hebrew by Joanna Chen
Frayed Light, by Yonatan Berg and translated by Joanna Chen from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through light under strain, Israeli landscape, and a lyric intelligence shaped by fracture without surrendering radiance. 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 light, fray, landscape, and the fragile seam between vision and wound, not as a fixed lesson about Israel. 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. Frayed Light belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers a contemporary Hebrew register of witness, perception, and restraint.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9780819579133