A Winding Line gives us an amazing decade of poetry by three powerful Israeli women poets, each breaking through the over-familiar surfaces of normal life and normal politics, to give us depth — of myth and imagination, of pagan sensuality, of penetrating satire, wrestling with the present moment as with a lover or a foe. No answers here, no ideology, only penetrating insights in which "the struggle never ends" (Bejerano), "God flattens us / to stillness and then lets go" (Hass), and "the world's apple demands that we bite into it" (Zecharia). — Alicia Ostriker