A poet and female commander in the Israeli Defense Forces creates an original perspective from the war-torn front lines of the Middle East conflict.
The Dove That Didn’t Return
tackles the canon of war poetry, an almost exclusively male-penned body of poems. In the book, biblical stories, verses, and fragments are rewritten through the eyes of a female lieutenant in the Israeli Army. It is a contemporary poetics on the revelations of war from an Israeli perspective never before told—a woman, and a soldier at that.
This debut full-length collection follows upon the publication of her critically acclaimed chapbook,
Between Sanctity and Sand,
from Finishing Line Press.