List of Titles by Dina Ripsman Eylon
SONGS OF LOVE AND MISGIVINGS
DINA RIPSMAN EYLON
ISBN 978-0-9688949-5-8
2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition: April 2017. E-book.
Songs of Love and Misgivings is the 2nd revised and enlarged edition of Eylon's first chapbook in English. It includes personal poems laced with a constant yearning for that special connection to the divine and the humane.
DINA RIPSMAN EYLON
Thornhill, ON: Sisterhood Press, 2017.
ISBN 978-0-9688949-4-1. PDF.
This book is a translation of poems by Dina Ripsman Eylon from her book: On the Horizon in the First Person. Tel-Aviv: Eked Publishing, 2011. [Hebrew] In October 2011, the author was invited to read her poems and participate in "Semana Poetica," a momentous week of poetry and poets at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Most of the featured poets wrote in languages other than English. The college published a bilingual chapbook for each poet. Until Borders Collapse is a revised edition of that chapbook.
This book's PDF is available free. For details, email the us: sisterhoodpress@gmail.com
DINA RIPSMAN EYLON
Thornhill, ON: Sisterhood Press, 2011.
ISBN-10: 0968894925
ISBN-13: 978-0968894927
First printing: June 2011
Photography: Dina Ripsman Eylon
Design: Talia Eylon
Perfect bound
PDF Edition: 978-0-9688949-3-4.
"Dina, I have enjoyed reading The Heart of the City. Am greatly impressed with its range – geographical, tonal, imaginative. It’s admirable how you’ve gathered such a wealth of strong material in a relatively compact container.” Allan Briesmaster, Poet, Publisher, and Editor.
“Dina Ripsman Eylon's voice is pure lyricism, individualistic and non-conforming. The speaker's quest for love is absolute. Yet, tender words can be cunning, misguiding, the embrace loose, and separation finite. The speaker's seemingly naive stance about the existence of love is often contrasted by a deep sense of alienation, continuing the gloomy traditional theme of urban literatures.” Edith Covensky, Poet, and Professor, Wayne State University.
IN THE HEART OF THE CITY: POEMS
DINA RIPSMAN EYLON
Thornhill, ON: Sisterhood Press, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-9688949-1-0
First printing: June 2010
Limited Edition, signed copies.
Design: Talia Eylon
Loose leaf; book art
"The narrator of these poems “looked for love/in the outskirts of a loveless city.” She found warmth and erotic touch, but also betrayal and loneliness. These are often hard to untangle, as the poems show. The author has written earlier about feminism and religion, Jewish mysticism, and women in Judaism, and some references to these themes appear in her poems; these allusions (as in “Envy,” “Homeland,” and “In the Heart of the City”) give the poetry more depth and extend its meaning beyond one person’s story. Many of these poems have a kind of radiance, despite their sadness." Ellen S. Jaffe, Poet, Author, Teacher