The Dove That Didn't Return: Poems (MN)
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.
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"Yael Hacohen's The Dove That Didn't Return is a transformative book. You may enter this collection thinking you know what it means to be a woman, a mother, a soldier, a witness. You may enter it thinking you know plenty about violence and loss, duty and commitment, tenderness and mercy. But you will leave this book with different wisdom. Hacohen's unforgettable poems reckon with themes that reveal-above all, what it means to be human." -Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"Sacred and profane, biblically infused yet utterly contemporary, Yael Hacohen's beautiful, harrowing, war-torn, and soulful lyrics leave me shaken and uplifted. The Dove That Didn't Return is timely and timeless."--Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem and 100 Poems to Break Your Heart
