Rosmarie Waldrop's superb translation of Jabès now makes broadly available the work of a writer whose concerns are close to those of some of the central American poetry and fiction of our present time. His is a poetry of interpretation, a madly belated midrash on the scripture of silence, a meditative mode in which scholia and commentaries animate the book of lifeHis questionings are those vast ones which can occur only when answers have already been given once and for all."--John Hollander