The Holy Land (Essential Poets 111)
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Author
Contributions
- Stephanie Jed (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
2002-04-01 - Guernica Editions Inc.
Language
English
Word Count
20,000 words, Guess
Page Count
80 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveholyland00meri_0
- ISBN-101550711490
- ISBN-139781550711493
- Library of Congress Control Number2001095241
- OCLC Control Number47825901
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781550711493
- Open LibraryOL8550198M
Classifications
- LCCPQ4829.E57 V8613 2002
- LCCPQ4829.E57V8613 2002
Description
"Merini, like Dante, represents the story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, in its literal and allegorical senses. The forty poems of The Holy Land recall Moses at Mount Sinai, the Israelites' forty years in the desert, and Jesus' fast in the wilderness. For Merini, it seems, the Holy Land is not the Promised Land of Canaan, but the forty years spent getting there, coming to terms with the terrifying atrocities of hell, the mystical ecstasies of paradise, and the "intense pain...of plunging back into the banality of daily living." Merini's wandering may be understood as the poet's search for the obscure laws which govern her visions, metamorphoses, and creations."--BOOK JACKET.
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