To These Dark Steps

by Gabriel Levin

Overview

Gabriel Levin’s fourth collection moves from the Mediterranean world that has engaged his imagination for the last thirty years, to the sombre title sequence written in the shadow of Israel’s bombardment and incursion into Gaza in 2008. These striking poems and their prose commentary (The Fathers are Watching) navigate between the depredations of war and the mind’s need to disengage itself from its surroundings. The final section of this articulate and compassionate book is a fifteen-sonnet cycle dispatched from the shores of an unnamed island, which could be everyman’s abode, in search of what might lie yonder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856464447
Publisher:	Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date:	09/01/2012
Edition description:	None
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Levin’s searching spirit deals compassionately and memorably with the mind’s need to disengage itself from the depredations of war.