Life of the Dead by LEVIN and translated by Atar Hadari

This is poetry from Israel.

Life of the Dead by LEVIN translated by Atar Hadari is published by ARC Publications. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78190837664E12.

Life of the Dead, by LEVIN and translated by Atar Hadari from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through death, theatricality, and a Hebrew lyric imagination willing to make the dead stay socially present. 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 dead, stage, memory, and the strange comedy of afterlife inside language, 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. Life of the Dead belongs in the translated poetry library because it widens the shelf’s Hebrew range toward performance, mortality, and wit.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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