War & love, love & war by Aharon Shabtai and translated by Peter Cole

This is poetry from Israel.

War & love, love & war by Aharon Shabtai translated by Peter Cole is published by New Directions. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.7808112189E12.

In War & love, love & war, Aharon Shabtai arrives in English through Peter Cole’s translation from Hebrew, with a lyric field shaped by war, love, erotic force, and political violence. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the book should not be reduced to a country-language-press summary. I would read it for atmosphere and attention first: what kind of silence it makes, what kind of body it imagines, what kind of world becomes visible when the poem turns its head. The strongest value of this entry is that it gives readers permission to approach difficulty as texture rather than a locked door. War & love, love & war belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.

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