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Less like a dove
Agi Mishʻol
Translated from Hebrew by Joanna Chen
Less like a dove, by Agi Mishʻol and translated by Joanna Chen from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through dove imagery, peace's failure, and Agi Mishol's ability to let gentleness become politically complicated. 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 dove, peace, irony, and the distance between symbolic comfort and lived difficulty, 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. Less like a dove belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Hebrew poetry a clear example of lyric tenderness made uneasy.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9781848614765