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Stalin Is Dead
Rachel Sihor
Translated from Hebrew by Ornan Rotem
Stalin Is Dead, by Rachel Sihor and translated by Ornan Rotem from Hebrew, brings Hebrew-language poetry from Israel into English through political death, historical absurdity, and a title that lets twentieth-century power become grotesquely intimate. 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 Stalin, history, satire, and the strange afterlife of ideological names, 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. Stalin Is Dead belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a sharp, uncanny Hebrew prose-poetic pressure to the library.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Sylph Editions
- Language
- Hebrew
- Country
- Israel
- ISBN
- 9780956992086