"Yael Hacohen’s The Dove That Didn’t Return is a transformative book. You may enter this collection thinking you know what it means to be a woman, a mother, a soldier, a witness. You may enter it thinking you know plenty about violence and loss, duty and commitment, tenderness and mercy. But you will leave this book with different wisdom. Hacohen’s unforgettable poems reckon with themes that reveal—above all, what it means to be human." —Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"Sacred and profane, biblically infused yet utterly contemporary, Yael Hacohen's beautiful, harrowing, war-torn, and soulful lyrics leave me shaken and uplifted. The Dove That Didn't Return is timely and timeless."--Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem and 100 Poems to Break Your Heart
Praise for Between Sanctity and Sand
"A quietude lives in Between Sanctity and Sand--through Yael Shoshana Hacohen's strong voice."--Yusef Komunyakaa
"An heir to Yehuda Amichai, Yael Hacohen is a young poet with an old soul, and her harrowing, war-torn lyrics bring something utterly fresh into American poetry--a shocked memory of military life, a desert consciousness that hovers between the sacred and the profane, and an awe-inspiring sense of poetry that is both ancient and new. This short book is a gem."--Edward Hirsch
