The hymns of Job and other poems by Maya Bejerano and translated by Tsipi Keller

This is poetry from Israel.

The hymns of Job and other poems by Maya Bejerano translated by Tsipi Keller is published by BOA Editions. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193441417E12.

The hymns of Job and other poems, by Maya Bejerano and translated by Tsipi Keller from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through Job’s lament, prayer, and Maya Bejerano’s charged relation to biblical inheritance. 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 Job, hymn, affliction, and the old music of complaint remade in modern speech, 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. The hymns of Job and other poems belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings sacred-text pressure into contemporary Hebrew poetry without reducing it to devotion.

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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