Hovering at a Low Altitude by Dalia Ravikovitch and translated by Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld

This is poetry from Israel.

Hovering at a Low Altitude by Dalia Ravikovitch translated by Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld is published by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780393340099E12.

Hovering at a Low Altitude, by Dalia Ravikovitch and translated from Hebrew by Chana Bloch, Chana Kronfeld, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be hovering, fragility, moral clarity, and suspended grief, but the point is not to make those themes behave too neatly. Poetry is often most alive when it lets a reader feel a relation before naming it. I would place this book in front of someone willing to follow image, cadence, and mood before demanding a thesis. The translation carries a voice shaped by poetry connected to Israel into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. Hovering at a Low Altitude belongs here because it enlarges the shelf’s emotional and linguistic weather.

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