Category: Poetry

Retrievals Reviewed

This review of JR’s latest book just out in the Jewish Daily Forward; first paras below; you can read the whole essay here. Lost Poems Shed Light on Jerome Rothenberg’s Work Author and Translator...

On Celan’s “Meridian”

A review of Paul Celan’s The Meridian just in via the British This Space blog. Below the opening paras. You can read the complete piece here. Poetry, ladies and gentleman: an expression of infinitude, an...

Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011)

Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 80. Adina Hoffman  wrote a biography of Taha called My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness, and her husband Peter Cole has translated his poetry....