Poets on the Edge

Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry was recenty reviewed in the Jerusalem Post. The review is full of praise for the collection, as well as for editor and translator Tsipi Keller. Here's a snippet:

This new anthology of Hebrew poetry in translation has two special strengths - tremendous depth and a personal touch. In terms of depth, it moves far past the familiar big names of Hebrew poetry, or at least those names familiar to English-language readers. Sure, there's Yehuda Amichai, the most famous of recent Israeli poets, who has been widely translated by everyone from Ted Hughes to Leon Wieseltier to the team of Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld; there's Dahlia Ravikovitch, who is also fairly well-known, but there's also a slew of rarely translated or never-before-translated names that have a good chance of redefining the world's image of what Hebrew poetry is.

Read the entire review here.

Kafkaesque

Over at Tikun Olam, Richard Silverstein has written a fascinating review of our forthcoming book, With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry. Silverstein makes some intriguing connections between the title (which is taken from a quotation from Jeremiah) and Kafka's In the Penal Colony. He also compares the Israeli Occupation with "the harrow of Kafka’s story in that it etches both the sin and punishment directly onto the bodies of Israelis and Palestinians alike." We highly recommend you read this wonderful review.

With an Iron Pen is a groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank. For more on the book, visit our website.