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Aviva-No
Shimon Adaf
Translated from Hebrew by Yael Segalovitz
Aviva-No, by Shimon Adaf and translated by Yael Segalovitz from Hebrew, brings Israel Hebrew-language poetry into English through Israeli lyric pressure, negation, and the tenderness hidden inside refusal. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for the title's no, the possible name inside it, and the way a poem can make absence feel almost intimate, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Aviva-No belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Hebrew poetry a voice of compression, hesitation, and emotional risk.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Alice James Books
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9781948579056