Further up the Path by Daniel Oz and translated by Jessica Cohen

This is poetry from Israel.

Further up the Path by Daniel Oz translated by Jessica Cohen is published by BOA Editions, Limited. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781942683933E12.

Further up the Path, by Daniel Oz and translated by Jessica Cohen from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through path, continuation, and Daniel Oz’s compact movement through thought and image. 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 path, ascent, attention, and the small measures by which a poem keeps going, 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. Further up the Path belongs in the translated poetry library because it contributes a contemporary Hebrew poetics of motion, seeking, and clarity.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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