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She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940.
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The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (English and Hebrew Edition)
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The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (English and Hebrew Edition) [Kaufman, Shirley, Hasan-Rokem, Galit, Hess, Tamar, Ostriker, Alicia Suskin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (English and Hebrew Edition)
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But What: Selected Poems
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Because Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet, playwright, and screenwriter, makes her home part of the year in Amsterdam and part of the year in Tel Aviv, it was possible for her to collaborate directly with the Jerusalem-based American poet Shirley Kaufman on this impressive selection from her poetry. As witness to history and acute recorder of human relationships, this poet writes with extraordinary compassion and superb control.
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The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity: A Bilingual Anthology (The Defiant Muse Series) (Hebrew Edition)
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Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. This groundbreaking volume of the bilingual series includes 100 poems by over 50 poets, many never before available in English. From new interpretations of biblical and rabbinic literature to works by contemporary poets, this collection illuminates the tremendous breadth and diversity of the women's poetic tradition in Hebrew. Poems appear in Hebrew with English translations on opposite pages. Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. This groundbreaking volume of the bilingual series includes 100 poems by over 50 poets, many never before available in English. From new interpretations of biblical and rabbinic literature to works by contemporary poets, this collection illuminates the tremendous breadth and diversity of the women's poetic tradition in Hebrew. Poems appear in Hebrew with English translations on opposite pages.
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Rivers of Salt
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Book by Kaufman, Shirley
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Claims: A Poem
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Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics - Number 8, Spring 1973
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Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics - Number 8, Spring 1973 [YOUNG, David, Editor (Margaret Attwood, Richard Hugo, Philip Levine, Donald Hall, Ruth Moon Kempher, Shirley Kaufman, Jack Anderson, Sandra McPherson, Michael Benedikt, John Haines, Russell Edson, Rainer Maria Rilke, Conrad Hilberry, et al)] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics - Number 8, Spring 1973
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The floor keeps turning; poems (Pitt poetry series)
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Threshold
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Shirley Kaufman has long been a house favorite at Copper Canyon, and we’re celebrating her new book with a special price of $12.00. Born in the United States, Shirley Kaufman has lived for the past 20 years in Jerusalem, a city split by cultural and religious fault lines. In direct, sensitive language, Kaufman’s poems occupy the shifting border between ordinary life and violence, Palestinian and Jew, young love and aging companionship. They grapple with the meaning of routine, of family, and of life among a daily existence punctured with bombs. Sometimes I need to be nowhere. A place without history. A life of wandering like the desert generation of Moses. The wandering Jew. But that brings me back into history. Sealed rooms. Windows criss-crossed with tape so the glass won’t shatter. A dark noose of memory around my neck. Coffins covered with flags and flags burning. I need to be nowhere. —from "Sanctum" "There’s such solidity to Shirley Kaufman’s writing. . . . You feel in conversation with someone wise and passionate, someone you can trust."—Poetry Flash "Kaufman’s poems flourish in the spaces between what is familiar and unfamiliar, between life in Israel and life in the U.S., and in those moments when the differences between Palestinians and Jews, mothers and daughters, history and the immediate moment play themselves out."—American Book Review "Kaufman is adept at revealing the human face behind politics, carefully accumulating familiar details to make a large portrait."—Publishers Weekly Shirley Kaufman is the author of seven books of poetry and several translations from the Hebrew. Her awards include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. A native of Seattle, Kaufman now lives in Jerusalem. Shirley Kaufman has long been a house favorite at Copper Canyon, and we’re celebrating her new book with a special price of $12.00. Born in the United States, Shirley Kaufman has lived for the past 20 years in Jerusalem, a city split by cultural and religious fault lines. In direct, sensitive language, Kaufman’s poems occupy the shifting border between ordinary life and violence, Palestinian and Jew, young love and aging companionship. They grapple with the meaning of routine, of family, and of life among a daily existence punctured with bombs. Sometimes I need to be nowhere. A place without history. A life of wandering like the desert generation of Moses. The wandering Jew. But that brings me back into history. Sealed rooms. Windows criss-crossed with tape so the glass won’t shatter. A dark noose of memory around my neck. Coffins covered with flags and flags burning. I need to be nowhere. —from "Sanctum" "There’s such solidity to Shirley Kaufman’s writing. . . . You feel in conversation with someone wise and passionate, someone you can trust."—Poetry Flash "Kaufman’s poems flourish in the spaces between what is familiar and unfamiliar, between life in Israel and life in the U.S., and in those moments when the differences between Palestinians and Jews, mothers and daughters, history and the immediate moment play themselves out."—American Book Review "Kaufman is adept at revealing the human face behind politics, carefully accumulating familiar details to make a large portrait."—Publishers Weekly Shirley Kaufman is the author of seven books of poetry and several translations from the Hebrew. Her awards include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. A native of Seattle, Kaufman now lives in Jerusalem.
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Shirley Kaufman
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She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1944. She studied at San Francisco State University, with Jack Gilbert. She was born in Seattle WA, graduated from UCLA, married Dr. Bernard Kaufman Jr, and raised her three daughters with him in San Francisco. She went back to school at San Francisco State University to complete a master’s degree in creative writing and became part of the vibrant poetry scene of the city in the 1960’s.
Career
She published nine books of poetry, most recently Ezekiel’s Wheels in 2009. A volume of her selected poems translated by Aharon Shabtai was published in Hebrew and a bilingual volume of her poetry translated by Claude Vigee was published in France. Her work has been praised in The Nation as “progressive, passionate and unfailingly feminist.”
She also distinguished herself as a translator from Hebrew into English of Israel’s leading poets, among them Abba Kovner and Meir Wieseltier. In 1999 The Feminist Press published The Defiant Muse, a bilingual collection of feminist Hebrew poetry from the Bible to the present, edited by Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasan-Rokem and Tamar Hess, with many translations by Kaufman.
Kaufman read her works for the Academy of American Poets, the Library of Congress, the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y in New York, and many other centers and universities throughout the United States, and at poetry festivals worldwide. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Pushcart Prize Collection, and The Norton Book of American Jewish Literature.
Her daughter, poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel"s Wheels". Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Harper"s, American Review, and The New Yorker.
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Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics - Number 8, Spring 1973
(Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics - Number 8, Spring...)
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But What: Selected Poems
(Because Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet, playwright, and scre...)
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The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity: A Bilingual Anthology (The Defiant Muse Series) (Hebrew Edition)
(Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes...)
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The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology (English and Hebrew Edition)
(The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to...)
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Threshold
(Shirley Kaufman has long been a house favorite at Copper ...)
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Rivers of Salt
(Book by Kaufman, Shirley)
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The floor keeps turning; poems (Pitt poetry series)
(Book by Kaufman, Shirley)
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Claims: A Poem
(Kaufman, Shirley)
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Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics - Number 8, Spring 1973
Membership
Publications books & transl.; poems in most American journals & many anthologies; transl. of Isr. poets in Ariel, Midstream; Modern Poetry in Transl., Tri-Quarterly: Abba Kovner, Dan Pagis, Amir Gilboa, Avner Treinin.
Connections
She was married to Professor H.M. Daleski; in 1946 she married Doctor Bernard Kaufman, Junior. They had three daughters: Sharon (b 1948), Joan (b 1950) and Deborah (b 1955).
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1944
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1967