Description: This text explains how a group of second-generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self-expression.
Review Quotes: "In lucid writing and armed with depths of understanding and knowledge, David C. Jacobson leads his reader into an exploration of Jewish thought rooted in the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook and his son Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and their disciples. Against this background, Jacobson explains the framework of the new poetic phenomenon which has grown at the very heart of the religious Zionist community, an ideological and political movement which largely held back from poetic activity from its inception. The writer invites his reader, indeed all of us, to a challenging experience--of thought and poetry blended together."--Avinoam Rosenak, Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem