PIW 15 July 2011
Three poets from Israel feature in our second July issue.
The poems of the late T. Carmi, a US-born, Hebrew and English-speaking poet who moved to Israel via Paris in his twenties, are strikingly pared-down, at times almost imagistic, at times proverb-like. Aryeh Sivanintertwines personal and national experience within his lyrical poems; 'Tel Aviv in the Forties', for instance, set in the poet's childhood, reflects on this confluence and formation of individual and communal Israeli identity. A poet of Argentine origin,Tal Nitzán is also a translator of Hispanic and English-language literature into Hebrew, and a peace activist. Her sensitivity to others' suffering is evident in poems such as 'The Canary' – a moving depiction of survival and endurance in the face of threats to safety and home.
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