Nineveh [electronic resource]
Zohar Atkins2019
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Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabès, Paul Celan and Yehudah
Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Zohar Atkins's
poems offer humour and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigmatic,
mystical theophany. The division between secular and religious is blurred, the
two coexist in a generous exchange. The Bible is near at hand but rendered
unfamiliar in the combination of anachronism with classical allusion. The poems
produce jarring, contemporary Midrashim - interpretative retellings of canonical
tales. Cain and Abel appear as business executives, Ishmael is a Palestinian
dying in an Israeli hospital, Rachel and Leah are the projected identities of a
demented Jacob, and God is a perfectionist who procrastinates by binge-watching
TV. These poems are for intellectuals disenchanted with intellectualism and for
seekers and sensualists in search of a renewing approach to language. Scholar
and rabbi, Atkins has learned that poetry and ...
Main title:
Nineveh [electronic resource] / Zohar Atkins
Author:
Zohar Atkins, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Poetry, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (96 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781784107406
Language:
English
BRN:
433659
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |