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The Light of Desire
Marjorie Agosin
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Description for The Light of Desire
Hardcover. A meditation on love and its meanings in the land of Israel. Translator(s): Carlson, Lori Marie. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Marjorie Agosin's intensely personal long poem "The Light of Desire" is both a secular and sacred meditation on love and its meanings in the land of Israel. Following the tradition of the "Song of Songs" and the secular poetry of Sepharad, the beloved in "The Light of Desire" is both physical and metaphorical. The lovers' bodies are the paths, the geography, leading not only from desire to sensual pleasure, but to memory and illumination. The light on the pink stones of Jerusalem, the sunlight of Galilee, from hills to the sea, the fragrant air and mantle of stars, all become ... Read more
Marjorie Agosin's intensely personal long poem "The Light of Desire" is both a secular and sacred meditation on love and its meanings in the land of Israel. Following the tradition of the "Song of Songs" and the secular poetry of Sepharad, the beloved in "The Light of Desire" is both physical and metaphorical. The lovers' bodies are the paths, the geography, leading not only from desire to sensual pleasure, but to memory and illumination. The light on the pink stones of Jerusalem, the sunlight of Galilee, from hills to the sea, the fragrant air and mantle of stars, all become ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Swan Isle Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
85
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780974888170
SKU
V9780974888170
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About Marjorie Agosin
Marjorie Agosin is professor of Spanish at Wellesley College and a human rights activist. She has written several volumes of poetry, essays, novels, and criticism, among them Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love, and Cartographies. Lori Marie Carlson is a lecturer in the Department of English at Duke University. She is the author of Cool Salsa, The Sunday Tertulia, and ... Read more
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