Poets on the edge by Anthology and translated by Tsipi Keller

This is poetry from Israel.

Poets on the edge by Anthology translated by Tsipi Keller is published by State University of New York Press. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780791476857E12.

Poets on the edge is an anthology translated by Tsipi Keller from Hebrew, gathering Israel Hebrew-language poetry through a gathered field of Israeli voices placed deliberately at a boundary. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through edge, chorus, argument, and the many tonal pressures that emerge when an anthology refuses a single center. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Poets on the edge belongs in the translated poetry library because it introduces a literary community by letting more than one voice define the terrain. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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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