Book record
Late Beauty
Tuvia Ruebner
Translated from Hebrew by Lisa Katz
Tuvia Ruebner's Late Beauty, translated by Lisa Katz from Hebrew, should be introduced as more than a piece of metadata. The book's charge gathers around late beauty, aging, grief, and quiet radiance, and that makes it valuable for readers who want poems to think through sensation rather than explanation. I like descriptions that admit when a book may ask for patience, because patience is not a flaw in poetry. It is one of the pleasures. Read this one for the line that lingers, the image that feels half familiar and half impossible, the pressure of a voice shaped by poetry connected to Israel without being flattened into a lesson. Late Beauty earns its place as a work of attention.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Zephyr Press
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9781938890116