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Vulture in a Cage
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Translated from Hebrew by Raymond P. Scheindlin
Vulture in a Cage, by Solomon Ibn Gabirol and translated by Raymond Scheindlin from Hebrew, brings Spain Hebrew-language poetry into English through medieval devotion, philosophical hunger, and a voice pressed against enclosure. 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 cage, hunger, prayer, and the old problem of how a spirit speaks when the world keeps narrowing around it, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. 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. Vulture in a Cage belongs in the translated poetry library because it lets a medieval Hebrew voice feel near without turning nearness into simplification.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Spain
- ISBN
- 9780914671558