{"product_id":"one-summer-day-eva-eliav-9781954353176","title":"One Summer Day","description":"Eva Eliav's second book of poetry shines as brightly as the sun in the summer of her title. In this luminous collection, there is an ongoing and often profound tension between apparent opposites that are in fact linked by the very essence of their existence: the normal and the unusual, the known and the unknowable, the secular and the spiritual, the profane and the sacred, music and noise. Her language is unadorned yet evocative. \u003cp\u003eJanis Rapoport, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Paradise and Winter Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile reading the fine, focused collection \u003ci\u003eOne Summer Day\u003c\/i\u003e by Eva Eliav, we can imagine ourselves inside an apartment or outside in nature, observing details. While the speaker in poem 6 states that \"regret has become \/ my most faithful companion\" it is only one of many intense feelings Eliav explores. However, the overriding sentiment is wonder about creatures, people, ideas. Tender, thoughtful, true poems, full of the possibilities of one day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica Barksdale, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen We Almost Drowned \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGrim Honey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith delicacy, with grit, poet Eva Eliav leads us to feel the sharpness and pain of a poet's life. Her startlingly precise observations of the street, the world, the coffee shop touch us with a pensive melancholy and leave us with the sense that \"in the end we have the love \/ that we can manage.\" In the end, too, we know that, \"like starving beasts \/ devouring their own muscle \/ poems survive.\" These poems survive, echo in the mind and memory, long after the cover is closed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Mandel, author of \u003ci\u003eNothing Golden Stays and Covet the Oven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Summer Day\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a sense of frailty and closes with a sense of ease. In between, Eliav shows us bountiful life. These spare poems are rich in images.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorita Dittberner-Jax, author of \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNow I Live Among Old Trees\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Eva Eliav were a sculptor, her creations would be small and deceptively simple, each one fashioned with the meticulous care of a Renaissance master . . . Nothing is superfluous, and surface calm masks rich emotional depths. In Eliav's world, \"all of it matters,\" and so, too, will it matter to the fortunate reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvan Fallenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Parting Gift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eva Eliav\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954353170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954353176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eva Eliav","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440195940607,"sku":"9781954353176","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da92d870-9409-473a-bef1-2de09a107b0c.jpg?v=1777180819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-summer-day-eva-eliav-9781954353176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}