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Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir

Here are two books in one by an Israeli poet and muse, Ilana Shmueli, who has been known to English readers through her important correspondence with Paul Celan—short poems that can be read as a single, important long poem—loaded with new discoveries—and a memoir of her early life in Czernowitz, Bukovina (the region that gave us Celan, Norman Manea, Nina Cassian, Gregor von Rezzori, and Aharon Appelfeld, et al.), out of which a significant part of her poetry eventually grew.

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Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir

Here are two books in one by an Israeli poet and muse, Ilana Shmueli, who has been known to English readers through her important correspondence with Paul Celan—short poems that can be read as a single, important long poem—loaded with new discoveries—and a memoir of her early life in Czernowitz, Bukovina (the region that gave us Celan, Norman Manea, Nina Cassian, Gregor von Rezzori, and Aharon Appelfeld, et al.), out of which a significant part of her poetry eventually grew.

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Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir

Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir

Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir

Toward Babel: Poems and A Memoir

Overview

Here are two books in one by an Israeli poet and muse, Ilana Shmueli, who has been known to English readers through her important correspondence with Paul Celan—short poems that can be read as a single, important long poem—loaded with new discoveries—and a memoir of her early life in Czernowitz, Bukovina (the region that gave us Celan, Norman Manea, Nina Cassian, Gregor von Rezzori, and Aharon Appelfeld, et al.), out of which a significant part of her poetry eventually grew.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781937679026
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, The
Publication date: 12/03/2013
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

ILANA SHMUELI, born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, lives in Jerusalem. Sheep Meadow published her Correspondence with Paul Celan in spring 2011.

Table of Contents

An Introduction and Stanzas from a Poem Gerald Stern xviii

Translator's Note xxvi

Child of a Good Family: Czernowitz 1924-1944 3

from Drafting a life (2012) Leben im Entwurf 43

from Between Now and Now (2007) Zwischen dem Jetzt und dem Jetzt 83

A Conversation Between Norman Manea and liana Shmueli 139

Biographical Note 158

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