{"product_id":"between-sanctity-and-sand-paperback","title":"Between Sanctity and Sand - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYael S. Hacohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quietude lives in Between Sanctity and Sand-through Yael Shoshana Hacohen's strong voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Yusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn heir to Yehuda Amichai, Yael Hacohen is a young poet with an old soul, and her harrowing, war-torn lyrics bring something utterly fresh into American poetry-a shocked memory of military life, a desert consciousness that hovers between the sacred and the profane, and an awe-inspiring sense of poetry that is both ancient and new. This short book is a gem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Edward Hirsch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat a revelatory and painful pleasure it is to read the fierce lyrics in Yael Hacohen's Between Sanctity and Sand; this formidable debut packs a punch, conjuring the terrors of war while retaining the tender humanity and intimacies of song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Deborah Landau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYael S. Hacohen's poems conjure, with vivid, soul-piercing immediacy, the view from behind a soldier's eyes, drawing on her experience as a commander in the Israeli military. In one poem, a young trainee feels the first awesome thrill of a weapon in her hand: \"I could shoot like an angel.\/ I could hit a running target\/ at six-hundred-fifty meters.\" Terrifying moments are rendered as if in time-lapse photography: \"After he shoots, you want to shoot back, but you didn't\/ put in the time. And now you can't get your breathing straight.\" The speaker of one of these poems even grieves her enemy: \"Little boy, what could lead you to strap a bomb to your chest?\" Hacohen neither shrinks from nor condemns war; she seek to comprehend it, to acknowledge its persistence. \"Listen, even the olive tree\/ needs to be beaten with a stick,\" she advises, which is perhaps to say you can love your enemy and still not have peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e -Craig Morgan Teicher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.08 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42708417019967,"sku":"9781646624706","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c33ea63af20a0d7b7fe2007b70ae9cbe.webp?v=1765047711","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/between-sanctity-and-sand-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}