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Reality crumbs
Rachel Chalfi
Translated from Hebrew by Tsipi Keller
Reality crumbs, by Rachel Chalfi and translated by Tsipi Keller from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through crumbs, reality, and Rachel Chalfi's attention to the small remains out of which perception is made. 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 crumbs, reality, fragments, and the honest poverty of what the world leaves in the hand, not as a fixed lesson about Israel. 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. Reality crumbs belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the library a Hebrew poetics of small evidence and strange clarity.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9781438457420