THE BANQUET
FORTHCOMING:
CARCANET PRESS, AUTUMN 2025
BOOK PREVIEW:
“Memory and Geography” in The New Yorker
“Un Amour Désespéré” in The Friday Poem
After Rimbaud’s Illuminations
“The Citadel of the Mind” in PN Review
After Dante’s Convivio
Stav Poleg’s The Banquet explores the fragile, intricate links between language and longing - how words can reconstruct great cities out of memories and dreams, tear them apart, or carry them from one place to another, as if each city, house and chamber were made of sonic and visual images rather than walls and bricks. Moving between the worlds of philosophy, theatre and poetry - from Dante's Florence to Wittgenstein's Cambridge; from Tom Stoppard's theatre stage to the harsh landscapes of Rimbaud's poetry - The Banquet explores the ever-growing tensions between words and action, knowledge and ethics.