Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. This hand-sewn chapbook contains three parts:
1) in which the Israel poet Aharon Shabtai offers witness.
2) in which a publishing vision emerges from teh rich sources mingling in Jerusalem.
3) a verse essay on poetic form in America by Leonard Schwartz that argues responsibility is the responsibility to respond.
Leonard Schwartz argues forcefully for a poetics of publishing that crosses boundaries of language and difference (in this instance Arabic and Hebrew, Palestine and Israel).

Author City: OLYMPIA, WA USA

Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous books of poetry including, most recently, AT ELEMENT (Talisman House, Publishers, 2011), A MESSAGE BACK AND OTHER FURORS (Chax Press, 20008), The Library of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007), LANGUAGE AS RESPONSIBILITY (Tinfish Press, 2006), EAR AND ETHOS (Talisman House, Publishers, 2005), THE TOWER OF DIVERSE SHORES (Talisman House, Publishers, 2003), and WORDS BEFORE THE ARTICULATE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Talisman House, Publishers, 1997). In addition he is the author of A Flicker at the Edge of Things: Essays Towards a Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 1998). He hosts and produces the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics and teaches at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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