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To These Dark Steps

  • ISBN-13: 9780856464447
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Gabriel Levin
  • Price: AUD $22.99
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  • Local release date: 17/08/2012
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 80 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Gabriel Levin's fourth collection moves from the Mediterranean world that has engaged his imagination for the last thirty years, to the sombre title sequence written in the shadow of Israel's bombardment and incursion into Gaza in 2008. These striking poems and their prose commentary ('The Fathers are Watching') navigate between the depredations of war and the mind's need to disengage itself from its surroundings. The final section of this articulate and compassionate book is a fifteen-sonnet cycle dispatched from the shores of an unnamed island, which could be everyman's abode, in search of what might lie yonder.
Gabriel Levin was born in France, grew up in the United States, and has lived in Jerusalem since 1972. He has published three earlier collections of poetry and translations from Hebrew, French and Arabic. His translation from the medieval Hebrew of Yehuda Halevi, 'Poems from the Diwan', also appeared with Anvil (2002). His essays on the geographical and imaginative reach of the Levant have appeared in literary journals in England and the United States.
'Coleridge believed that language is the vehicle through which divinity passes into humanity and that poets are the true guardians of it. In Levin one could not wish for a more passionate and imaginative guardian.' Sonja Besford, Ambit
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