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Life of the Dead
LEVIN
Translated from Hebrew by Atar Hadari
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.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Arc Publications
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9781908376640