Description
On the Surface of Silence offers for the first time in English the final poems of Lea Goldberg, pre-eminent and central poet of modern Hebrew poetry. These extraordinary texts, composed in the last years and even last days of the poet's life and published posthumously after her untimely death, exhibit a level of lyrical distillation and formal boldness that mark them as distinctive in the poet's oeuvre. Often employing a fragment-like structure, where the unspoken is as present and forceful as the spoken, stripped of adornments and engaging the reader with an uncompromising, even disarming, directness, Goldberg's last poems enact and manifest a poetics of intrepid truth-telling. The play between revelation and concealment, the language precision and the unflinching end-of-life gaze transform these texts into powerfully moving, and often surprising, poems. The book itself, in the original format as masterfully edited by Tuvia Ruebner and with drawings by Goldberg herself interspersed among the poems, is a significant and beautiful artifact of modern Hebrew culture. This bilingual edition, with translations by award-winning translator Rachel Tzvia Back, brings us poems from a singular poetic voice of the 20th century - poems which will enrich, reflect, and stir the reader's heart.
About the Author
Lea Goldberg (1911-1970) was the recipient of the Israel Prize for poetry, the state's highest honor. Goldberg was a playwright, author of children's books, and translator.
Rachel Tzvia Back is head of the Graduate English Program at Oranim Academic College, Israel.
Book Information
ISBN 9780822964902
Author Lea Goldberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Weight(grams) 605g
About the Author
Lea Goldberg (1911-1970) was the recipient of the Israel Prize for poetry, the state's highest honor. Goldberg was a playwright, author of children's books, and translator.
Rachel Tzvia Back is head of the Graduate English Program at Oranim Academic College, Israel.
Book Information
ISBN 9780822964902
Author Lea Goldberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Weight(grams) 605g
