Gethsemane by Atar Hadari Jonathan Totman One can almost smell the

One can almost smell the tobacco and taste the goat pepper soup and the stews – pleasurable moments

trapped inside her secret

All is presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable - and indispensable for the strange times in which we live

He lives in New York City

This substantial volume is a tribute to the maturing voice of an essential poet

Gethsemane by Atar Hadari Jonathan Totman One can almost smell theA collection of monologue poems by characters from the New Testament, viewed from the perspective of their Jewish background. Thinking his way back into situations depicted in the stories of the New Testament and what their Jewish legal and social context probably will have been, Atar Hadari places the voices of different characters, finding the tension between what the reality would have been and how such a voice would sound in todays world. Echoes