Hovering At a Low Altitude Paperback by Dahlia Ravikovitch

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2011-06-28)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393340099
• Item Weight: 396.9 grams
• Dimensions: 23.37 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm

“[Ravikovitch’s] poems hum their messages like tuning forks. . . . [She] reaches visionary heights.”—Margot Lurie, New Criterion

Dahlia Ravikovitch, who died in 2005, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Hebrew literature and the Israeli peace movement. In these poems about fathers and daughters, men and women, kings and their subjects, she articulates the painful asymmetries of power. The extraordinary stylistic range of her poetry reveals her mastery of the verbal art.

About the Author

Dahlia Ravikovitch, who died in 2005 at age sixty-nine, was one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Hebrew literature and the Israeli peace movement. She spent most of her life in Tel Aviv, Israel.


Chana Bloch co-translated Yehuda Amichai’s Open Closed Open to wide acclaim. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Chana Kronfeld co-translated Yehuda Amichai’s Open Closed Open to wide acclaim. She lives in Berkeley, California.