Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman and translated by Benjamin Balint

This is poetry from Israel.

Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman translated by Benjamin Balint is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848614772E12.

Trembling of the City, by Hagit Grossman and translated by Benjamin Balint from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through urban trembling, desire, and the city as a body that cannot keep still. 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 city, tremor, intimacy, and the unsettled feeling of living inside public noise, 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. Trembling of the City belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers a contemporary Hebrew city lyric alive to instability and bodily pressure.

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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