This English-Hebrew book features three dozen poems by the extraordinary Israeli writer Orit Gidali (b. 1974), a unique voice among her contemporaries. Gidali's work appears to focus on the domestic, but for her, the domestic sphere is the stage on which the drama of the geopolitical is reworked on an individual scale. The domestic is always inhabited by the Other, who in these deeply personal poems appears in various guises: a Palestinian mother, biblical figures, the poet's own deceased mother, and her husband's first wife. Gidali creates a space in her world to imaginatively reconfigure the current political impasses of the region through a focus on relationship and openness. Gidali's poems, beautifully captured in English by Marcela Sulak, present a world beset by danger and uncertainty, yet they nonetheless cry out for community, connection, cooperation, and coexistence.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-13
9781477309575
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222102838
Product Key Features
Book Title
Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems of Orit Gidali
Author
Orit Gidali
Format
Paperback
Language
English, Hebrew
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
130 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
198g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Orit Gidali
Series Title
Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation