| Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems of Orit Gidali Contributor(s): Gidali, Orit (Author), Sulak, Marcela (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1477309578 ISBN-13: 9781477309575 Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Language: Hebrew Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern |
| LCCN: 2016930343 |
| Series: Cmes Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.40 lbs) 130 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gidali, Orit: - Orit Gidali has published three collections of poetry, as well as a children's book. She teaches at Tel Aviv University and organizes workshops in collaboration with the author Eshkol Nevo. |