In Exchange for a Homeland
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1930454201 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 79 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is courageous, vulnerable work, hard won, and illuminating" - Gary Snyder. Poetry. Yosefa Raz grew up in Jerusalem, served in the Israel Defense Force as a border guard and Hebrew teacher before receiving the Celest Turner Wright Poetry Prize.. "For Raz poetic mind and language take precedence, and the unpredicatble, tragi-comic, contradictory and unsettling personal truths that lie behind any world-scale socio-political conflict are the actual reach of her penetrating poems
-- Shirley KaufmanTragi-comic unsettling personal truths behind socio-political conflicts are the actual reach of her penetrating poems. Acute double vision of an Israeli woman who strips her world to the bone to come to terms with it. -- Gary Snyder
Breathless Mei_Nu You can read these poems a hundred times and each time they will take your breath away. The images are visceral; you feel the heat of the sun, the dryness in the throat, the texture of the cloth. Poems so good, you'll wish you could eat them. This is really a. BEAUTIFUL AND PERVERSE Gilad Elbom A magical, breathtaking, wonderful book that captures the complexity and perversity of life in the so-called Holy Land. Through a series of powerful poems that always maintain a fascinating, delicate balance between the personal and the political, Yosefa Raz
Yosefa Raz grew up in Jerusalem. . A graduate of the Hebrew University and the UCDavis Creative Writing Program, Raz currently teaches writing in Berkeley, California. She served in the IDF as a border guard and Hebrew teacher