"[Ravikovitch’s] song is both ancient and new, and it is unutterably poignant." ―Stanley Kunitz In poems about fathers and daughters, men and women, kings and their subjects, the precarious position of women and the plight of Palestinians under the Occupation, Dahlia Ravikovitch articulates the painful asymmetries of power. The extraordinary stylistic range of her poetry reveals her mastery of the verbal art. from “Clockwork Doll”
I was a clockwork doll, but then
That night I turned round and around
And fell on my face, cracked on the ground,
And they tried to piece me together again.
Then once more I was a proper doll
And all my manner was nice and polite.
But I became damaged goods that night,
A fractured twig poised for a fall.

Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch

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“[Ravikovitch’s] poems hum their messages like tuning forks. . . . [She] reaches visionary heights.”―Margot Lurie, New Criterion Dahlia Ravikovitch, who died in 2005, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Hebrew literature and the Israeli peace movement. In these poems about fathers and daughters, men and women, kings and their subjects, she articulates the painful asymmetries of power. The extraordinary stylistic range of her poetry reveals her mastery of the verbal art.

Ravikovitch is one of the greatest Hewbrew woman poets and a distinctive voice in the Israeli peace movement. Both mystical and political, these are visionary poems of loss and hope.

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Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch

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