Great Regulars: [Yitzhak] Laor should not be read as the bane

of officialdom, however, but rather as the stern comfort of the Israeli soldier who can no longer pretend to be the courageous warrior; his poetry is both the balm of those who serve only the orders of their own conscience and the prophetic exhortation of those he describes in his poem "Balance":

The gunner who wiped out a hospital the pilot

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Lines of Occupation: The Post-Zionist Poetics of Yitzhak Laor

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