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Other poets describe the book adequately: \u201c… I have enjoyed reading The Heart of the City. Am greatly impressed with its range \u2013 geographical, tonal, imaginative. It\u2019s admirable how you\u2019ve gathered such a wealth of strong material in a relatively compact container.\u201d Allan Briesmaster, Poet, Publisher, and Editor. \u201cDina Ripsman Eylon’s voice is pure lyricism, individualistic and non-conforming. The speaker’s quest for love is absolute. Yet, tender words can be cunning, misguiding, the embrace loose, and separation finite. The speaker’s seemingly naive stance about the existence of love is often contrasted by a deep sense of alienation, continuing the gloomy traditional theme of urban literatures.\u201d Edith Covensky, Poet, and Professor, Wayne State University.<\/p>\n
These are days<\/p>\n
There are days when summer\u2019s heat
\nscorches a burning heart.<\/p>\n
There are days \u2013
\nFeet aflame, throb, incapable to keep on striding,
\nlimp on sharp edges. Far is the day when they
\nwould climb to the inconceivable summit.<\/p>\n
There are days \u2013
\nThe brain wonders how rapidly leaves wilt.
\nMad moments dissolve into eternal lunacy.
\nSharp pains envelope in generations\u2019 boredom.<\/p>\n
There are days \u2013
\nHungry for legacy, she wants to rest amid notorious
\ntombs, put her head down, and forget how the ship
\nof days sail swiftly with barrels of fumbled memories.<\/p>\n
There are days \u2013
\nDesperate desire for change ceases, as people
\ndear to her are unable to hold on to each other
\nin this chamber of pitch-darkness.<\/p>\n
Author and publisher, Dina Ripsman Eylon has a Ph.D. in Post-biblical Hebrew Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. For the past sixteen years, she has served as the publisher and editor-in-chief of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. She is also the founder of the Vaughan Poets’ Circle. Her chapbook Songs of Love and Misgivings was published in September 2006, and in 2007, she edited a collection of poems entitled Waging Change: Vaughan Poets Engage in Politics. In 2010, Sisterhood Press published Dina\u2019s second chapbook In the Heart of the City. In 2011, Dina published two poetry collections: One in Hebrew, entitled On the Horizon in the First Person (Tel-Aviv: Eked) and the other is entitled, The Heart of the City and Other Urban Poems (Toronto: Sisterhood Press).<\/p>\n
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