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This English-Hebrew book features three dozen poems by the extraordinary Israeli writer Orit Gidali (b. 1974) , a unique voice among her contemporaries. Gidali's work appears to focus on the domestic, but for her, the domestic sphere is the stage on which the drama of the geopolitical is reworked on an individual scale. The domestic is always inhabited by the Other, who in these deeply personal poems appears in various guises: a Palestinian mother, biblical figures, the poet's own deceased mother, and her husband's first wife. Gidali creates a space in her world to imaginatively reconfigure the current political impasses of the region through a focus on relationship and openness.Gidali's poems, beautifully captured in English by Marcela Sulak, present a world beset by danger and uncertainty, yet they nonetheless cry out for community, connection, cooperation, and coexistence.
About the Author
Orit Gidali was born in 1974. Her first book of poetry, Twenty Girls to Envy Me, was published in 2003, and her next, Closing In, followed in 2006. Orit lives in Rehovot, is married to the poet Alex Ben-Ari, and is the mother of Hallel, Noa, Ofri, and Aner. Nora the Mind Reader is Orit's first picture book. She wrote it for her six-year old daughter and says that it's based on real magic. Orit also teaches at Tel Aviv.
