Jabes explores a realm of subversiveness above suspicion indeed a dialecticof subversion itself. Poised between the poetic and the aphoristic Jabess newbook cal... » 

Jabes explores a realm of subversiveness above suspicion indeed a dialecticof subversion itself. Poised between the poetic and the aphoristic Jabess newbook calls into deep meditative question the easy received notions ofsubversiveness which have become a sort of default mode for diligently dullacademic scholars and celebrates the energies of everfreshened inquiry.John Hollander Yale University «