Selected Poems
“Without cries of triumph or pain; with clarity, restraint and honesty, Hamutal Bar-Yosef has cleared her own path in Israeli poetry… On the one hand, a sense of life stamped into calamity, deficiency and vulnerability; on the other, a great lust for life…grasping at each everyday detail that holds some support or sustenance. [Yet] Bar-Yosef’s poetry reaches crystalline, pure moments of authentic equilibrium… With a musicality that fluctuates between grace and reticence, these poems bring the reader large and small bundles of life that are harsh and stormy, but also illuminated by the light of a sensitive, mature intelligence”.
Dan Miron, from the Afterword to Selected and New Poems by Hamutal Bar-Yosef, 2011
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French/Arabic, Hungarian, Spanish
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Hungarian
Budapest, Mult es Jovo, 2009 -
French/Arabic
Paris, Caracteres, 2013 -
Spanish
San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, Vaso Roto, 2014
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| Title | Selected Poems |
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| Writer's Last Name | Bar-Yosef |
| Writer's First Name | Hamutal |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher (Hebrew) | Hakibbutz Hameuchad |
| No. Pages | 352pp. |
| Book title - Hebrew (phonetic) | Hishtavut: Mivchar Shirim Yeshanim Va-Chadashim |
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“ Sensuous and sensual. Without a single superfluous word.”
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“ I read – slowly, like sipping a strong liqueur – two or three poems each evening and marvel at the precision, the acuity, and the (rare) blend of warmth and irony. ”
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“ Bar-Yosef writes passionately and wisely about the convergence of historical tragedy and personal suffering. ”