Between Sanctity and Sand

A quietude lives in Between Sanctity and Sand-through Yael Shoshana Hacohen's strong voice.

-Yusef Komunyakaa

An heir to Yehuda Amichai, Yael Hacohen is a young poet with an old soul, and her harrowing, war-torn lyrics bring something utterly fresh into American poetry-a shocked memory of military life, a desert consciousness that hovers between the sacred and the profane, and an awe-inspiring sense of poetry that is both ancient and new. This short book is a gem.

-Edward Hirsch

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