Shirley Kaufman

New and Selected Poems

Roots in the Air

The poems of Shirley Kaufman’s sixth collection are “rivers of salt” that cross geographical and cultural boundaries bearing the traces of wounds from difficult relationships. These poems record a life in Israel that has deepened her awareness and added historical weight to her work.

Rivers of Salt

Shirley Kaufman utilizes enigmatic symbolism from the Book of Ezekiel as she writes into the themes of exile and emigration that have marked her work since she left the United States for Israel thirty-six years ago. Her new poems attempt to bring meaning to the unrelenting passage of human life, the risks of artistic endeavors, and her own struggle with the loss of sight and memory. Through four decades of writing and publishing, Kaufman maintained a lightness of touch even while her poetry took on an increased awareness of danger and urgency.

Ezekiel's Wheels

American poet in Jerusalem writes of physical and metaphoric thresholds of politics, love, art, and aging.

Threshold

New & Selected Poems

The Floor Keeps Turning; Poems

Gold Country

Tamar Hess

Galit Hasan-Rokem

The first collection of its kind recovers 2,500 years of Hebrew poetry by women.

Shirley Kaufman

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