Product Description: Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated and introduced by Harold Schimmel. Esther Raab was the first native-born Israeli woman poet and an important if often-overlooked figure in the emerging literature of the Hebrew language. Her work, marked by its strong voice and idiosyncratic rhythms, is painterly in its direct apprehension of her physical surroundings...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Ostensibly a meditation on the elusive pre-Islamic Arabic qasida, or ode, this aphoristic essay by the author of FROM ISLAND TO ISLAND sketches a detailed and tactile poetics of vision and recollection. "A concept of form for the complex poem ...read more