The Infected Desert: Israel at War with the Palestinians

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The Infected Desert: Israel at War with the PalestiniansThe Infected Desert: Israel at War with the Palestinians is Harold Jaffe's last book, published four months after his death. The form is documentary poems, a turn Jaffe took in his final years toward verse that carries the same documentary charge as his prose. The subject is the Israeli war on the Palestinians, and Jaffe addresses it two ways at once: through brief, tensely discerning free verse and through actual documents that he reconstitutes so

An overheard rule or affidavit

" gaps of vital information the reader supplies from personal experience

Yet this work is inexhaustible

" and inside that frame Dennis Vanderspek layers surreal parables

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Thirty variations

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bringing personal experience into the story and becoming

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