Publisher's Synopsis
In his fusions of the sensual and the spiritual, the ordinary and the exalted, the sexual in the suffering psyche and the intelligent consciousness searching and spinning through history, myth and layers of language, Shabtai is one of the most exciting poets writing anywhere, and certainly the most audacious. The poems have a wonderful almost vertiginous energy, an enormous erudition, and a startling, finally inspiring candor. A splendid book brilliantly translated by Peter Cole - C.K.Williams
Aharon Shabtai's poetry is of epic range: personal and historical, full of hard won knowledge and the sexual dramas the Greeks allowed their gods and themselves. He can be placed in a line that stretches from Biblical to Greek origins to Catullus to Joyce to Jean Genet and other masters of language, revelry, and revelation - Stanley Moss
