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Letters to America
Reuven Ben-Yosef
Translated from Hebrew by Michael Weingrad
Letters to America, by Reuven Ben-Yosef and translated by Michael Weingrad from Hebrew, brings United States Hebrew-language poetry into English through diaspora address, American distance, and the ache of writing toward another shore. 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 letters, arrival, estrangement, and the strange intimacy of speaking to a country as if it could answer, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. 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. Letters to America belongs in the translated poetry library because it makes migration feel like correspondence rather than a solved identity.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780815633983