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The new edition will include the leoras afterword and dedication to her mentor, publisher and editor of glad day books, grace paley. The girl is caught in the maelstrom of political claims between israel and a. Edges is the story of a girl of fourteen brought by her mother to the young state of israel with its maelstrom of political claims between israel and the est bank. Eliot, in tradition and the individual talent, wrote that every new story or poem takes its place in the context of all the stories and poems that have ever been written. The girl is caught in the maelstrom of political claims between israel and a west bank, still part of the kingdom of jordan. Edges o israel, o palestine, leora skolkinsmith, 2005, fiction, 176 pages. Edges o israel o palestine by leora skolkin smith fanning them out with her fingers like a trick deck of cards and holding them in front of my eyes there was jerusalem the. This is a collection of over four dozen poems about the middle east and about.