The Shunra and the Schmetterling
Shunra is Aramaic for cat. Schmetterling is German for butterfly. In Yoel Hoffmann's new book, these and numerous other creatures, cultures, and languages meet in a magical shimmering hymn to childhood. Hoffmann traces his hero's developing consciousness of the ways-and-wonders of the world as though he were peering through a tremendous kaleidoscope: all that was perceived, all that is remembered, is rendered in fluid fragments of color and light. With remarkable delicacy and sweep, Hoffmann captures childhood from the amazed inside out, and without the backward-looking wash of grown-up sentiment. Instead, the boy's deadpan registration of th…
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Weitere Autoren: Hoffmann, Yoel
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1567-1
- EAN: 9780811215671
- Produktnummer: 9917667
- Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.0 cm 157 g
- Gewicht: 157
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Peter Cole's previous books of poems include Things on Which I've Stumbled (New Directions). Among his volumes of translation are The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Cole, who divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.
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