Scorched by the sun by Mosheh Dor and translated by Barbara Goldberg, Moshe Dor

This is poetry from Israel.

Scorched by the sun by Mosheh Dor translated by Barbara Goldberg, Moshe Dor is published by Word Works. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780915380831E12.

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.

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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