Shabtai has long been an outspoken political activist and critic as was his wife, Tanya Reinhart. Links of London a professor of linguistics and literary theory at Tel Aviv University her doctoral adviser was Noam Chomsky, she left Israel, unable to withstand its politics, and settled in New York in . She passed away a few months later. The final and the most moving chapter of Shabtai's collection, "Tanya," is about her. Here Shabtai's lyricism, experimentation, diversity and propensity for shock merge into a single tender voice, struggling to survive the loss, to break through communication barriers imposed on this Links of London Bracelets too physical world This is not exactly what one expects to hear from the mourner. The image is raw, sexual. The darkness edges on humor. It is as if the poet, so set on transformations, can't mourn in a traditional, approved way, but has to find new and more poignant means of expressing himself. The poem's beauty is in the physical sensation of plummeting, with a second's flash of fatal yearning that the reader, too, experiences. In the essay, the poet explains that he places the weight of the poem on its syntax compositional flow which to him is more important than the actual words used. To his great merit, Cole Links of London Teddy Charm been able not only to capture the terse and poignant imagery, but also to preserve and intensify the poetry's fiery syntactic energy. In another poem from the "Tanya" cycle, it is again the composition, rather than the diction that represents the depth of feeling with heartbreaking potency The repetitions establish a musical, dirgelike rhythm throughout the poem. But each repetition means something different. The first lines sound like a pained mourner's mumbling. In the third and fourth verses, the sack gets heavier, and the hole in the heart gets bigger with the repe tition. Pipes most likely smoking pipes, as the cover photo of the book implies also evoke the image of music, as if one orchestral row joins in after the other. By the sixth and seventh, the verses are all a single strand of movement between relationships and apartments experienced as a single indistinguishable breath. Next, the shoes take on almost physical presence, standing side by side, identical like the lines that represent them. Black or brown, it's hard to remember Links of London The Man On The Moon Charm in them, the reader stumbles into poem's finale. The decision to read something at the day's end seems to promise a temporary relief but what gets pulled off the bookshelf is, ironically, Voltaire's "Zadig" the pessimistic tale of a philosopher's struggle with Fate, treacherous and questionably significant turns of destiny.
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