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Fire Stays In Red By Someck, Ronny
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780299179007
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Book, Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Fire Stays in Red : Poems
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Genre
- Poetry, Literary Collections
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Topic
- Middle Eastern, General
- Item Weight
- 13.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 152 Pages
About this product
Product Information
"My mother dreams in Arabic, I dream in Hebrew," says Ronny Someck. Born in 1951, he was uprooted from his native Iraq when he was four. Transplanted to Israel, Someck spent his childhood in a transit camp for new immigrants. There he was surrounded by music, the great singers Umm Kulthum, Farid al Atrash, and Fairuz shouldering up against Elvis Presley and Billie Holiday. No wonder he is so beloved in Israel. In what other poet do we find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe, and cowboys battling with Rabbi Yehuda Halevi for the hearts and souls of Israelis? Someck's poems are rich in slang and distinguished by staccato rhythms, quick cuts, close-ups, and disturbing segues. As in film noir, the sensations are of speed, danger, uncertainty. His distinct Sephardi voice invokes the odors of falafel and schwarma, the army with its supporting cast of recruits and commandos, the bustle of southern Tel Aviv with its small garages, shops, cheap restaurants, its gangs and its Arab workers. He is also the troubadour of the lovelorn, with poems that are hot, erotic, comic, tragic, agape at the wonders of a tear and a tattoo and a snapshot and a bra and a scarecrow.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299179001
ISBN-13
9780299179007
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2248833
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fire Stays in Red : Poems
Number of Pages
152 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Middle Eastern, General
Genre
Poetry, Literary Collections
Format
Book, Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
2002-020689
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
892.4/16
Lc Classification Number
Pj5054.S65a23 2002
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