Description: My Littl of Exiles, Paperback by Alter, Dan, ISBN 1913606945, ISBN-13 9781913606947, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The poems of My Littl of Exiles sift through layers of diaspora and return, wrestling with the twin experiences of exile and separation. The diasporas of the collection take place in history, family, and the privacy of a mind as it navigates its daily work. In a set of "Labor Poems," Alter captures moments of working in the snow of Wisconsin, under floodlights on the Kenai bay of Alaska, or in the machine-roar of construction sites in the Bay Area, where he has worked for two decades as an electrician. Another set of poems confront the vision of the Jewish peoples homecoming to their ancestral land. A philosopher of the "religion of labor"; and an assassinated Prime Minister are some of the figures which weave in with intimate histories of heartbreak and hope. Coming from a home where the Hebrew Bible was a book of bedtime stories, Alters work is in conversation with texts as varied as the Hebrew Psalms, the poetry of John Keats and Ezra Pound and the songs of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley. The collection concludes with poems exploring the homeland of family made through marriage and fatherhood, the strains and moments of grace that come with them. What can withstand the pressures of distance, the forces from outside and inside that want to pull us apart? Ths strands weave a tapestry of hope even as the poems seek to discover finally what lasts.
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Book Title: My Little Book of Exiles
Number of Pages: 108 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: General
Item Height: 0.3 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 6.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Dan Alter
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
