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Blood Honey by Chana Bloch
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ISBN (paperback): 978-1-932870-33-6
About the Book Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected by Jane Hirshfield.
These poems of intimate memory and sure-handed imagination survey the human condition with a tender, compassionate, and unflinching gaze. They take place in the world of the daily — they eat, dress, make love, ponder, remember, mourn, and observe. They know some things about life that are hard to put into words, and for those things, they find words, and more. Chana Bloch’s poems carry their reader into a hard-won, music-ripened wisdom. – Jane Hirshfield The more powerful the words, the more piercing the images, the deeper the healing. That is what real poetry can do. And that is what Mrs. Dumpty succeeds in doing: healing with words, making this life liveable. – Yehuda Amichai The restraint of the book’s voice, its calm, matter-of-fact narrative empty of hysteria, conveys heartbreak poignantly. [Her ear] is impeccable. – Jay Rogoff, The Georgia Review (about Mrs. Dumpty) About the Author Chana Bloch is the author of four books of poetry: The Secrets of the Tribe, The Past Keeps Changing, Mrs. Dumpty, and Blood Honey. She is also the co-translator of The Song of Songs, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, and Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch. |
