Edmond Jabès, the Poetry of the Nomad

Jabes was exiled from Egypt in 1956; in Paris for the rest of his life, until 1991, he wrote poetry that revolved around the odyssey of Israel: the survival of the ancient tribe who had been devoted to a book and had experienced the desert of wonder and the powerful history of unending exile. Kluback's account is more a meditation than a scholarly treatise. No index or bibliography except references to Jabes' poems. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR