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Israeli Poet Natan Zach Dies at 89
"Mr. Zach joined with other rebel poets—most notably the premier modernist, Yehuda Amichai—to form an avant-garde nucleus anchored in the journal Likrat (Toward). He went on to publish two dozen collections, with poems often touching on the fleeting nature of relationships and the fragility of the human body and of existence itself."
viaTHE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Kazim Ali on "When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me"
"Writing Devi’s poems into English—I guess I mostly believe that Benjamin was right: even the original poem is a ‘translation’ of an experience past language—made me a writer of poems nothing like the poems I myself wrote. They were poems of great despair, of great rage, emotions ordinarily thought of perhaps as ‘negative;’ certainly they were emotions and feelings that I myself was only just beginning to explore in my own work." |
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