From a critically acclaimed poet, politically and environmentally hot poems for the next millennium.

First printing, a trade paperback. In addition to his own poems, this includes translations of works by Montale, Pasternak and Rilke.

Love poems are accompanied by transliterations of the original Sanskrit and interpretive notes and an introduction provide critical and historical backgrounds

what if the rain referred to something else? and bowling and shoes were done with the mouth? Sometimes language, thoughts, and emotions are a fixed structure like a warehouse. Sometimes they are fog, waves, light, or music. This is LSE: Language as a second English. English as a grammar of ghosts. Words as the snowfall of ideas. The Obvious Flap is a musical, poetic flux of recurring and recursive images exploring language's luminous fringes of language. The text weaves a variety of thematic threads of humour, literary allusions, and narrative into a fabric that spreads into an open, proprioceptive linguistic environment. Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts have concocted a collaborative jam session for multiple larynxes and have made an obvious flap as they have fallen through the mirror into Plunderland. not everyone is a poet my dog for instance.

Errant , Gabriel Levin's sixth collection, opens and ends with invocations: of Venus at dawn and Hesperus at dusk. The book's day takes us on a three-part planetary journey. "What Drew Me On" is inspired by Tamara Rikman's free-floating works on paper and by Plato's image of the music of the spheres. Ghostly presences are evoked in several poetic forms, including terza rima for the poet's take on image-making down the ages. "First came sooty beings shinnying up walls." There are elegies to the cineastes Abbas Kiarostami and Chantal Akerman, as well as translations from Greek and (in villanelle form) from the Medieval Hebrew of Avraham Ibn Ezra. There are aubades, lyrics, and a sequence arranged in short-lined triads of psychic retreat in Jerusalem. The wanderer picks up where he left off in earlier books, striking out from home, conjuring Sa'adi's Gulistan or Nasir-i Khursaw in Cairo; pocketing bits of obsidian on the island of Melos, paying homage to Yannis Ritsos in Crete.

Coming Forth by Day breaks new ground in its formal experimentation as well as in its exploration of remote corners of the Mediterranean. The long title poem is written from the multiple perspectives of the personages in Courbet's large painting The Artist's Studio . Courbet's realism blends with ancient Eastern mythologies, including the Egyptian Book of the Dead , which gives the collection its title. In another long poem, "Balthazar's Field," the poet walks the length and breadth of Patmos, seeking out the hidden and the heterogeneous: the cave of St. John, a Greek priestess's inscription carved on a stone. The book concludes with an extended meditation on modern music written in homage to the composer Alexander Goehr.

הספר כולל אוסף צילומים בנושא יהודים בגלות מביתם. בנוסף לכך הספר מלווה בשירים של יהודה עמיחי.

Eight thematically related improvised poems explore the experiences and feelings of the author and his friends

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