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On the Surface of Silence
Leah Goldberg
Translated from Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back
On the Surface of Silence, by Leah Goldberg and translated by Rachel Tzvia Back from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through silence, surface, and Leah Goldberg's major modern Hebrew voice given a careful English crossing. 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 silence, surface, exile, and the difficulty of making inwardness visible, 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. On the Surface of Silence belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a significant entry for readers approaching Hebrew literary modernism.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Hebrew Union College Press
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9780822964902