
Ostraca
Gabriel Levin(Author)
Anvil Press Poetry
Published on 1. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-0-85646-317-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 his refractory, adopted Jerusalem, and an emerging Palestine.
Reviews / Votes
'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'More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85646-317-4 (9780856463174)
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Person
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.