Bathsheba's levantine bouquet
Subtitle: a verse collection
By: Barbara Hantman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781477107836; 9781477107843
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Hebrew poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: In Bathsheba's Levantine Bouquet, BarbaraHantman captures the Jewish calendar holiday cycle in the opening chapter, "Days of Smiles and Tears" Chapters on "Hebrew Heritage" and "The Sacred Tongue" boast linguistic riches of eight bilingual Hebrew-English poems. "Soaring Minds, Heaving Hearts" rhapsodizes over such eminences as Moses, Solomon, Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Emma Lazarus, C.N. Bialik and Hanna Senesh. "For the Kinder" sings the praises of Thomas the Tank Engine, while "Love' s Lessons" concludes with mature love 's lyrical reveries, wistful childhood remembrance, homage to Triangle Shirtwaist victims and an altruistic "Prayer for Japan and the World"--Amazon presentation