Reality Crumbs
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Ever present in Chalfi's poetry is the need to touch, to feel the tangible and sensuous, as well as a desire to break all boundaries and smash so-called conventional wisdoms, be they social, cultural, or linguistic. Her poems are often anxious, restless, inquisitive, nearly physical in their constant search for, and chasing after, that one element that will help them get a step closer to grasping the mystery at their center. And if she takes on the persona of a wild biker or a witch, it is not merely to travel freely in the land of fancy and so taste another's life, but, more importantly, to measure the extent of her empathy.
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Raquel Chalfi is the author of many volumes of poetry, and her work has been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. She has received numerous literary awards, including the Prime Minister's Prize, the Ashman Prize, the Bialik Prize for Poetry, and the Brenner Prize for Poetry. She is also a playwright and filmmaker, and has taught film at Tel Aviv University. She lives and works in Tel Aviv. The author of nine books, Tsipi Keller is a novelist and translator. Her previous translations include Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (also published by SUNY Press) and Maya Bejerano's The Hymns of Job and Other Poems. She lives and works in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Preface
Tsipi Keller
From Underwater Poems and Other Poems (1975)
On the Shore, Tel Aviv, Winter 1974
From the Songs of Crazy Dolores
A Brief Love
From Freefall (1979)
Traveling to Jerusalem on a Moon Night
Hair of Night
Freefall
The Water Queen of Jerusalem
Reckless Love
I Drew My End Near
For
Handling Pain
Daily Record
Chameleon
Niche
A Sex-Mechanic in Berkley
Sitting in the Wall
Going Up and Down the Stairs
The Magical Cat
And the Whiteness Grew Stark
Optimism in an English Meadow
From Chameleon or the Principle of Uncertainty (1986)
Tutti's Seven Energy Balls
Voices Near the Sea
Poem about Sky, Stone, Sea
Suddenly
An Open Letter to Poetry Readers
Dissolves
Relationship, 2
I Went to Work as an Ostrich
Signs
From Matter (1990)
Once I Knew
Such Tenderness
A Hat's Architecture
Elegy for a Friend Who Lost Her Mind
Tale about an Inside-Out Dress
Bear Song
Parrot in My Brain
A Hidden Passenger
Blues in a Jar
Reality Crumbs in Café Marsand
Sometimes At Noon
Busy
Eurydice
*(First line: And now what?)
From Love of the Dragon (1995)
The Soul or Possibly
A Moment in the Inner Glass
Birthmark
Cubism
Scanner (tr. by the poet)
The Love of Trees
Wings
German Boot
Internal Gymnastics
Sub-Matter
Three Women, Strangers, Watch Me by the Sea
From A Hidden Passenger (1999)
Organism, Chaos
Let Me Have a Bowl
Greenhouse Effect
The Glow of the Child
Pictures from a Diary
Space Pockets
Laundry
The Objects
Nearly
Suckling
From Portrait of Father and Daughter (2004)
To Watch Life
I Put Over My Head
I'm Sitting
And How You're Trying To Make Me Laugh
This Man
*(First line: When I came in here today)
Father Who Comes and Appears
From Secret Details from the Transparent Binder (2007)
The Cute Word-Strollers
More and More They Wrap
When Pain Becomes a Flower
Metaphors
Here in the Hidden House
Ants
In Such a Furnace of Noon
So Why Don't I
Don't Tell Me
Double Exposure in the Black Forest
A Half-Day Off
Love at McDonald's
The Cat Frasier as a Philosophy Major
A Moment Tries to Catch Itself by Its Tail
Cinema
If Only I Were a Fearless Biker
Sixty-Five Million Years Ago
Short Ones
From the Diary of a Penguinette (tr. by the poet)
Mrs. Darwin (tr. by the poet)
From Witches (2009)
A Witch Bent on Healing
The Witch Who Did Not Cushion Her Life
Mutant Witch
Witch Breaks
Witch in Fact
Hopeful Witch
The Witches' Chorus
Monologue of the Witch Impregnated by the Devil
The Fat Witch's Blues
Witch Discusses the Color Scale
From Portrait of Mother and Daughter (2010)
Weaving
A Small Prayer
Scar Tissue
Ejection Seat
Life as an Enormous Beast
She
Back Yard
In the Tiny Speck
From the Notebook
Mother
My First Dream about You
The Neighborhood Cats, And Also the Birds
Someone Went Past
And Now
Afterword
Dan Miron
Acknowledgments
About Raquel Chalfi
About Tsipi Keller
About Dan Mion
Index of Titles and First Lines
