Reality crumbs
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Reality Crumbs is the first book-length collection in English of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet, playwright, and filmmaker Raquel Chalfi. Versatile and unpredictable, Chalfi's often visionary and dramatic poetry has been acclaimed for its independence and daring by leading Israeli critics. In the words of poet and critic Eli Hirsch, her work is a "thrilling combination of simplicity and chaos, clarity and mystery."Ever present in Chalfi's poetry is the need to touch, to feel the tangible and sensuous, as well as a desire to break all boundaries and smash so-called conventional wisdoms, be they social, cultural, or linguistic. Her poems are often anxious, restless, inquisitive, nearly physical in their constant search for, and chasing after, that one element that will help them get a step closer to grasping the mystery at their center. And if she takes on the persona of a wild biker or a witch, it is not merely to travel freely in the land of fancy and so taste another's life, but, more importantly, to measure the extent of her empathy.
Title |
Reality crumbs : selected poems / Raquel Chalfi translated by Tsipi Keller afterword by Dan Miron. |
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Publisher |
Albany, New York : State University of New York Press |
Creation Date |
2015 |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
Contents Preface From Underwater Poems and Other Poems (1975) On the Shore, Tel Aviv, Winter 1974 From the Songs of Crazy Dolores A Brief Love From Freefall (1979) Traveling to Jerusalem on a Moon Night Hair of Night Freefall The Water Queen of Jerusalem Reckless Love I Drew My End Near For Handling Pain Daily Record Chameleon Niche A Sex-Mechanic in Berkeley Sitting in the Wall Going Up and Down the Stairs The Magical Cat And the Whiteness Grew Stark Optimism in an English Meadow From Chameleon or the Principle of Uncertainty (1986) Tutti's Seven Energy Balls Voices Near the SeaPoem about Sky, Stone, Sea Suddenly An Open Letter to Poetry Readers Dissolves Relationship, 2 I Went to Work as an Ostrich Signs From Matter (1990) Once I Knew Such Tenderness A Hat's Architecture Elegy for a Friend Who Lost Her Mind Tale about an Inside-Out Dress Bear Song Parrot in My Brain A Hidden Passenger Blues in a Jar Reality Crumbs in Café Marsand Sometimes At Noon Busy Eurydice *(First line: And now what?) From Love of the Dragon (1995) The Soul or Possibly A Moment in the Inner Glass Birthmark Cubism Scanner (tr. by the poet) The Love of TreesWings German Boot Internal Gymnastics Sub-Matter Three Women, Strangers, Watch Me by the Sea From A Hidden Passenger (1999) Organism, Chaos Let Me Have a Bowl Greenhouse Effect The Glow of the Child Pictures from a Diary Space Pockets Laundry The Objects Nearly Suckling From Portrait of Father and Daughter (2004) To Watch Life I Put Over My Head I'm Sitting And How You're Trying To Make Me Laugh This Man *(First line: When I came in here today) Father Who Comes and Appears From Secret Details from the Transparent Binder (2007) The Cute Word-Strollers More and More They WrapWhen Pain Becomes a Flower Metaphors Here in the Hidden House Ants In Such a Furnace of Noon So Why Don't I Don't Tell Me Double Exposure in the Black Forest A Half-Day Off Love at McDonald's The Cat Frasier as a Philosophy Major A Moment Tries to Catch Itself by Its Tail Cinema If Only I Were a Fearless Biker Sixty-Five Million Years Ago Short Ones From the Diary of a Penguinette (tr. by the poet) Mrs. Darwin (tr. by the poet) From Witches (2009) A Witch Bent on Healing The Witch Who Did Not Cushion Her Life Mutant Witch Witch Breaks Witch in FactHopeful Witch The Witches' Chorus Monologue of the Witch Impregnated by the Devil The Fat Witch's Blues Witch Discusses the Color Scale From Portrait of Mother and Daughter (2010) Weaving A Small Prayer Scar Tissue Ejection Seat Life as an Enormous Beast She Back Yard In the Tiny Speck From the Notebook Mother My First Dream about You The Neighborhood Cats, And Also the Birds Someone Went Past And Now Afterword Acknowledgments About Raquel Chalfi About Tsipi Keller About Dan Miron Index of Titles and First Lines |
Series |
Excelsior Editions |
Extent |
1 online resource (254 p.) |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2015 |
National Library system number |
997010717878205171 |
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