Are You With Me by Lisa Katz (NWVS#124)

$13.99

 

“It won’t be easy/ to wear the body I’ve chosen,” says the speaker in one of Lisa Katz‘s poems. And it won’t be easy for the reader to forget this book. Like birds of prey Katz’s poems descend on the subjects of breast cancer, Israel, marriage and divorce, among others. But they never forget that they are poems, and so they also rise to circle in the sky, offering the pleasures of pitch-perfect lines, stunning tropes, and the wry tones of a maker who “look[s] at absence straight on.” And then flies through it to the plenty of art.

–Natasha Saje, author of Vivarium and Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory.”

 

 

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Are You With Me (New Women’s Voices Series, No. 124)

by Lisa Katz 

$13.99, paper

Lisa Katz, (b. New York, in Israel since 1983), is editor of the Israeli pages of the Rotterdam-based Poetry International Web, http: //www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/country/recent_list/12 and the author of Shikhzur (Reconstruction), a book of her poems translated from English into Hebrew, (Am Oved Press, Tel Aviv, 2008). An occasional book reviewer for the English edition of the daily Haaretz newspaper, she has translated books of selected works by Israeli poets Tuvia Ruebner (Late Beauty forthcoming from Zephyr in 2016), Admiel Kosman (Approaching You in English Zephyr, 2011) and Agi Mishol (Look There Graywolf, 2006). Katz served as a lecturer in literary translation at Hebrew University, where she received her doctorate on the poetry of Sylvia Plath, https: //www.academia.edu/11316748/What_Sylvia_Plath_Said_about_History_and_Womens_Lives and most recently at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Her translation of “I have never needed God” by Israeli poet Miri Ben Simhon (1950-1996) appeared in Poetry in 2016.

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