Rescue Mission

by Gad Kaynar-Kissinger, Natalie Fainstein (Translator)

Rescue Mission's poems offer a web of delicate, paradoxical, surprising and explosive imagery coupled with multi-layered references to western culture, ancient mythologies, the scriptures and the arts. This tragic-ironic, Dantean ride will have you turning the pages. Ripe age on the brink mixes with childhood ridden by Gothic nightmares, mature Eros with playful Thanatos, Pan with the pandemic, the personal with the political, Apocalypse with Resurrection. Lose no precious despair, ye who enter here.

96 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2021

About the author

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger (Hebrew: גד קינר) is a professor at the theatre department, Tel Aviv University, and former head of the department, playwright, editor, actor, director and theatre translator. He has published eight volumes of poetry in Hebrew. His poems have been translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek and Arabic. He is the winner of the ASI Poetry Prize of the General Writers' Association in Israel.

Reviews

[Nelly Kortánková · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poetry, that is full of references.