Less Like a Dove
Published on 20. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
90 pages
978-1-84861-476-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Agi Mishol, one of the most popular poets of Israel, captures the imagination and the heart of Israeli readers by observing common daily realities through a contemplative, sometimes meditative, perspective, negotiating the space between the mundane and the spiritual with a lively sense of humor. Having overcome such dissociations of sensibility, Mishol's poems are flushed with a flow of vitality and freshness. With no undue emphasis, eschewing declarative pronouncements, the poet points to the important truths looming behind the veil of the trivial. Avoiding opacity and heaviness of any kind her carefully chosen words, semantically loaded to the brim, also throb with reined-in musicality and elan. The current selection of Mishol's poems represents the latest phase in the development of the poet's work in full ripeness."-Prof. Dan Miron,
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
126 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-476-5 (9781848614765)
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Agi Mishol is one of Israel's leading contemporary poets. Born in Transylvania, Mishol is the daughter of Holocaust survivors who arrived in Israel in 1950. She has published sixteen books of poetry in Hebrew and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the coveted Yehuda Amichai Prize for Hebrew Poetry and the Lerici-Pea Prize in Italy. Mishol received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University. Her work has been translated into several languages and a number of books have been published in translation. She lives in an agricultural community and directs the Helicon School of Poetry in Tel Aviv, where she teaches creative writing.