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Ostraca
Gabriel Levin
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Description for Ostraca
Paperback. Addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 101.
Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things past as well as present. In "Ostraca", his journey through the Mediterranean and the Levant is attuned to a wide mix of voices (among them, the lone voice of a sentry, pieced together from five potsherds or 'ostraca') and a range of times and places, from the Sahara, Cyprus, Byzantine Mt Athos and war-torn Lebanon to ... Read more
Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things past as well as present. In "Ostraca", his journey through the Mediterranean and the Levant is attuned to a wide mix of voices (among them, the lone voice of a sentry, pieced together from five potsherds or 'ostraca') and a range of times and places, from the Sahara, Cyprus, Byzantine Mt Athos and war-torn Lebanon to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856463174
SKU
V9780856463174
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99-16
About Gabriel Levin
Gabriel Levin, born in France in 1948, grew up in the United States and Israel. His first collection of poems, 'Sleepers of Beulah', was published in 1992. His poems, essays and translations from Hebrew have appeared in literary magazines in England and the United States.
Reviews for Ostraca
'A fine debut by a youngish Israeli poet who writes with minimum fuss and maximum engagement... its ambition... is immense' - William Scammell, The Independent on Sunday on 'Sleepers of Beulah'