Publisher's Synopsis
Cultural Writing. 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).
