The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda - Rilegato

Mishkovsky, Zelda Schneurson

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ISBN 10: 0878202218 ISBN 13: 9780878202218

Casa editrice: Wayne State University Press, 2004

Riassunto

From the publication of her first book in 1967 until her death in 1984, the modest and soft-spoken woman known to her Hebrew readers simply as Zelda received an extraordinary amount of public attention. Her six books of verse were honored by Israel's most prestigious literary awards and have remained bestsellers beyond the poet's lifetime. Marcia Falk, a well-known poet in her own right, was a good friend of Zelda's and a frequent visitor to her Jerusalem home. Fulfilling a promise she made long ago to her friend, Falk presents here the first major compilation of Zelda's poetry in English translation. A devoutly religious Jew descended from a line of prominent Hasidic rabbis, Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky inhabited the world of ultra-Orthodoxy her entire life. Her utterly unique poetry, which draws abundantly from classical Jewish texts, portrays at the same time a world of personal mystical imagery - the ""strange plant,"" ""enchanted bird,"" ""black rose,"" ""golden butterfly."" Marcia Falk's sensitive translations, lucid introduction, and comprehensive notes to the poems reveal the power of Zelda's poetry to create out of inner experience strikingly original pictures that reach beyond the borders of tradition to redeem pain and celebrate life.

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L'autore

Marcia Falk is the author of The Book of Blessings, a widely-acclaimed translation of The Song of Songs, a volume of translations of Malka Heifetz Tussman's Yiddish With Teeth in the Earth, and two books of her own poetry, This Year in Jerusalem and It is July in Virginia, which won the Claytor Award of the Poetry Society of America. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford and was a professor of Hebrew and English literature and creative writing for two decades. She now lectures widely on feminist Judaism, Jewish women's literature, and other subjects.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Wayne State University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0878202218
• ISBN 13: 9780878202218
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224
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