Stranger's Notebook

by Nomi Stone

Book Overview

Stone's moving debut collection of verse is inspired by her encounter with perhaps the last cohesive, traditional Jewish community in the Middle East and North Africa. According to their story of origin, a handful of exiles arrived on the island of Djerba, Tunisia, in 586 B.C., carrying a single stone from the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem. Drawing from this cosmology, the poems follow a stranger who arrives into an ancient community that is both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810125102
• ISBN13: 9780810125100
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.5"