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Further up the Path
Daniel Oz
Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
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.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Limited
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9781942683933