Book record
Scorched by the sun
Mosheh Dor
Translated from Hebrew by Barbara Goldberg
Scorched by the sun, by Mosheh Dor and translated by Barbara Goldberg, Moshe Dor from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through sun, heat, and Moshe Dor's lyric encounter with exposure and historical brightness. 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 sun, scorch, memory, and the way light can be both beauty and injury, 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. Scorched by the sun belongs in the translated poetry library because it contributes an Israeli Hebrew voice of radiance, pressure, and public feeling.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Word Works
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9780915380831