The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises evokes and investigates--from a Jewish American perspective and in the forms of poetry, essays, and interviews--the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America's involvement as both perpetrator and victim of events in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and the multiple ways that poetics can respond to political imperatives.
The poems range from the immediately lyrical to the experimental forms of the "Apple Anyone Sonnets" series, which relies heavily on the Arabic but has Shakespeare as its scaffolding.
In the essays,...
The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises evokes and investigates--from a Jewish American perspective and in the forms of poetr...
