The dune's twisted edge
Subtitle: journeys in the Levant
By: Gabriel Levin
Contributors: Levin, Gabriel, 1948-; Levin, Gabriel, 1948-; Levin, Gabriel, 1948-; Levin, Gabriel, 1948-; Levin, Gabriel, 1948-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780226923673; 9780226923680
Subjects: Middle Easterners; Essays; Description and travel; Middle Eastern poetry
Work titles: Essays
Description: "Part travelogue, part literary criticism, this book brings together six interlinked essays that probe the physical, cultural, and imaginative geography of the eastern seaboard of the Levant and its deserts. Its essay evolves out of the author's own travels through a certain region: the Judean desert extending to the Dead Sea, Wadi Rumm south of Petra, the Negev of modern-day Israel, the Galilee, the Arabian desert in which the great pre-Islamic poets once roamed. When the author is not encountering other presences, such as the Bedouin and writers from the distant and near past, he finds himself stumbling over the physical traces of vanished civilizations."--publisher.
Notes: Collection of previously published essays.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface : all things Levantine; title: Seeking a poetics of the Fertile Crescent; title: Hezekiah's tunnel; title: Who keened over the bones of dead encampments; title: Notes from Wadi Rumm; title: Galilean centos.