?Deeply personal poems evoking universal themes through a life centred in Jerusalem and reaching out to embrace other cultures, English countryside, a childhood in Wales and roots in Eastern Europe. This is a collection of poems written over thirty years, gathered into sections, each of which follows an arc through related subject matter, focussed sometimes on journey or place - India, Oxford - and sometimes on mood. The long black coat of the title was borrowed from an elegant friend to enhance a return trip to Paris, where Greenberg gravitated to the beloved Shakespeare and Company bookshop, setting for a poem reflecting on visits to Paris at different stages in her life. The poet examines ubiquitous issues, amplified by her move with young children to a country of political tensions and existential dangers, distilled here in close observation, and in the retelling of events and encounters with family, friends, strangers and new-found distant cousins, survivors of the Holocaust.
- | Author: Diane Greenberg
- | Publisher: Belliers Books
- | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 302 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1739737504
- | ISBN-13: 9781739737504
- Author:
- Diane Greenberg
- Publisher:
- Belliers Books
- Publication Date:
- Mar 31, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 302 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1739737504
- ISBN-13:
- 9781739737504