Navit Barel writes: “We ate apples dipped in honey. Free admission / to the sweet and happy years…”

“Once, when summer vacation stretched over the whole summer and tasted of sand and smelled of grapes and a redhead sun daubed freckles on your face…”

Yona Wallach had an astonishing impact on Hebrew literature during her short life, ushering in a feminist revolution in Israeli poetry.

“The Property” is about an Israeli grandmother and her granddaughter getting to know Warsaw as they try to reclaim a family property lost during WWII.

“Seconds before bursting into flames the boy sent out a cry / that his father, hanging farther down in perfect balance / could not make out…”