Years I Walked at Your Side by Mordechay Geldmann and translated by Tsipi Keller

This is poetry from Germany.

Years I Walked at Your Side by Mordechay Geldmann translated by Tsipi Keller is published by State University of New York Press. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781438472386E12.

Mordechay Geldmann’s Years I Walked at Your Side, translated from Hebrew by Tsipi Keller, feels like a book organized around companionship, time, intimacy, and elegiac walking. That does not mean the poems should be treated as illustrations of a theme. Better to approach them as moments of speech, records of whatever made language necessary. For a reader new to this poet, I would suggest beginning with the first image that creates a physical reaction: surprise, discomfort, tenderness, recognition, even refusal. The translation brings poetry from poetry connected to Germany into English while preserving the sense that some meanings should remain a little restless. Years I Walked at Your Side belongs on the shelf because it trusts poetry to do more than explain. It lets language alter the room around the reader.

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