Apples of the Earth

	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Booksense Contacts	Apples of the Earth by Dina Elenbogen ISBN 1-933132-24-8 $10.00 US \| $12.95 CAN 96 pages Find the book on Amazon> In Apples of the Earth, Dina Elenbogen is a poet who lives in several worlds at once. The weather in her poems is the weather all over the world, flood and drought at once. Living in Chicago she is also in Jerusalem, living in her home she is also far away in Africa, and the dialogue she keeps up within herself and outside herself extends her feeling from immediacy to longing. She is a poet who can write about love without embarrassment because for her “love survived in the middle of everything.” With these poems, love survives for us too. Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Lowercase Jew (Poems) and The Jew in the Lotus Apples of the Earth is a marvelous first collection. In elegant, luminous language, Elenbogen evokes the places and people she loves and grieves over. Her leaps of imagination are startling: in one deft instant, she can connect commonplace objects to motions of the spirit and the heart. Her tone is everywhere sure and clear, the voice of a born poet. Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of The Writing on the Wall and Disturbances in the Field

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Apples of the Earth by Dina Elenbogen

ISBN 1-933132-24-8 $10.00 US | $12.95 CAN 96 pages

Find the book on Amazon>

In Apples of the Earth, Dina Elenbogen is a poet who lives in several worlds at once.
The weather in her poems is the weather all over the world, flood and drought at once.
Living in Chicago she is also in Jerusalem, living in her home she is also far away in Africa,
and the dialogue she keeps up within herself and outside herself extends her feeling from
immediacy to longing. She is a poet who can write about love without embarrassment
because for her “love survived in the middle of everything.” With these poems, love survives
for us too. Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Lowercase Jew (Poems) and The Jew in the Lotus

Apples of the Earth is a marvelous first collection. In elegant, luminous language, Elenbogen
evokes the places and people she loves and grieves over. Her leaps of imagination are startling:
in one deft instant, she can connect commonplace objects to motions of the spirit and the heart.
Her tone is everywhere sure and clear, the voice of a born poet.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of The Writing on the Wall and Disturbances in the Field