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Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things past as well as present. In "Ostraca", his journey through the Mediterranean and the Levant is attuned to a wide mix of voices (among them, the lone voice of a sentry, pieced together from five potsherds or 'ostraca') and a range of times and places, from the Sahara, Cyprus, Byzantine Mt Athos and war-torn Lebanon to his refractory, adopted Jerusalem, and an emerging Palestine.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Ostraca
• Author: Gabriel Levin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72
• EAN: 9780856463174
• ISBN: 0856463175
• ID: 04741121
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 102 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 215 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 1999

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