Gabriel Levin

Gabriel Levin, poet and translator, the son of the American novelist Meyer Levin (best known for Compulsion, the first "non-fiction novel") and French novelist Tereska Torres, was born in France in 1948. He lives in Jerusalem with his Israeli wife and children. Levin is one of the founding editors of Ibis Editions, a small non-profit press devoted to the publication of the literature of the Levant, and serves as its Editor-at-large. Levin's work has appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including PN Review, TLS, the Chicago Review, Raritan and Parnassus.To these Dark Steps, a volume written in response to operation "Cast Lead" (2008), was set by British composer Alexander Goehr for tenor, children's choir, and ensemble and premiered September 2012 at the CBSO Centre in Birmingham.

Poetry

• Sleepers of Beulah - Sinclair-Stevenson, London 1991
• Ostraca - Anvil Press Poetry, London 2000; French translation Ostraca, Edition bilingue français-anglais, Le Bruit du temps, 2010
• The Maltese Dreambook - Anvil Press Poetry, London 2008
• To These Dark Steps, Anvil Press Poetry, London 2012
• Coming Forth By Day, Carcanet, Manchester 2014

Prosody

• Hezekiah's Tunnel - Publisher: Ibis Editions; 1997 (French translation: Le Tunnel d'Ezéchias et deux autres récits, Le Bruit du temps, 2010) [a] "delightful, discursive but moody midnight meditation on Jerusalem"

Essays

• The Dunes Twisted Edge, Journeys in the Levant - Chicago University Press, Chicago 2013

Translations

• Poems from the Diwan - Yehuda Halevi (Author), Gabriel Levin (Translator) Anvil Press Poetry 2002
• On the Sea: Poems by Yehuda Halevi - Translated and introduced by Gabriel Levin, Ibis Press
• The Little Bookseller Oustaz Ali by Rassim; "ravishly" (The Jerusalem Post) translated and introduced by Gabriel Levin

• So What: New & Selected Poems (With a Story) 1971-2005 by Taha Muhammad Ali (Author), Peter Cole (Translator), Yahya Hijazi, and Gabriel Levin (Translator and Introduction) (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
• Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story by Taha Muhammad Ali (Author), Peter Cole (Translator), Yahya Hijazi (Translator), and Gabriel Levin (Translation and "splendid" Introduction) 2000 Ibis Press ISBN 965-90125-2-7.

Collections

• The Water's Edge: Meetings of Image And Word -

edited by Ardyn Halter with poems by Jennie Feldman, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Gabriel Levin, Michael Longley, Jamie McKendrick, Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, Robin Robertson, and Stephen Romer, Lund Humphries Publishers 2006

Other

• Found in Translation: 100 Years of Modern Hebrew Poetry by Robert Friend (translator editor) and Gabriel Levin (introduction and biographical notes) -1999
• Pleasant if somewhat rude views by Mikael and Gabriel Levin, August 2005 One Star Press
• Préface to D. H. Lawrence, Croquis étrusques, Le Bruit du temps, 2010.

External links

• Ibis edition's official website
• Stephen Romer's review of Poems from the Diwan
• Eric Ormsby's review of Ostraca and Poems from the Diwan
• About To These Dark Steps / The Fathers are Watching by Alexander Goehr
• Review of The Dunes twisted Edge, Haaretz