Wings by Amir Or and translated by Seth Michelson

This is poetry from Israel.

Wings by Amir Or translated by Seth Michelson is published by Sagging Meniscus Press. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944697556E12.

Wings, by Amir Or and translated by Seth Michelson from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through flight, mythic reach, and Amir Or’s poems moving between body, cosmology, and lyric lift. 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 wings, flight, myth, and the wish to rise without abandoning the human, 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. Wings belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a broadly imagistic Hebrew voice with metaphysical sweep.

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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