Book record
With This Night
Leah Goldberg
Translated from Hebrew by Annie Kantar
With This Night, by Leah Goldberg and translated from Hebrew by Annie Kantar, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be night, tenderness, shadow, and modern Hebrew lyric clarity, but the point is not to make those themes behave too neatly. Poetry is often most alive when it lets a reader feel a relation before naming it. I would place this book in front of someone willing to follow image, cadence, and mood before demanding a thesis. The translation carries a voice shaped by poetry connected to Israel into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. With This Night belongs here because it enlarges the shelf's emotional and linguistic weather.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9780292726475