Keller Tsipi (ed.) Poets on the Edge. An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry

New York: University of New York Press,.2008.—379.—ISBN: 978-0-7914-7685-7What is so unique about Hebrew poetry? Why would a poetry reader be interested in a selection of Israeli poets? Partially, at least, such
questions remain rhetorical: Israel has always elicited great curiosity and polarized emotions, and it is safe to assume that its poetry would
as well. Poetry, W. H. Auden said, “makes nothing happen.” Perhaps. But poetry, whether engaged or not, best represents the culture out
of which it has grown. In addition, Israeli poetry has its own unique characteristics, just as the culture of which it is part.