American-Israeli poet and translator
Shirley Kaufman Daleski (June 5, 1923 in Seattle – September 25, 2016 in San Francisco ) was an American-Israeli poet and translator.[ 1]
Life
Her parents immigrated from Poland . She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940 and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. They had three daughters: Sharon (b. 1948), Joan (b. 1950) and Deborah (b. 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University with Jack Gilbert .
She married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1973.
Her daughter, poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels".[ 2]
Her work has appeared in Ploughshares ,[ 3] Harper's ,[ 4] The American Poetry Review ,[ 5] and The New Yorker .[ 6]
She died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93.[ 7]
Awards
Works
Poetry
"Cyclamen"; "The Last Threshold", Poets Against War
"Milk", Poetry Foundation
Bread and Water . Winter 1990–1991.
The Temples of Khajuraho . Spring 1988.
After the Wars . Spring 1984.
The Floor Keeps Turning . University of Pittsburgh Press. 1970. ISBN 9780822931904 .
Gold Country . University of Pittsburgh Press. 1973. ISBN 9780822932697 .
Looking at Henry Moore's Elephant Skull Etchings in Jerusalem During the War . Greensboro, North Carolina: Unicorn Press. 1977. ISBN 978-0-87775-108-3 . second edition, 1979
Hebrew translation by Dan Pagis, Tel Aviv: 1980
From One Life to Another . University of Pittsburgh Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8229-5300-5 .
Claims . New York: The Sheep Meadow Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-935296-53-2 .
Rivers of Salt . Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press . 1993. ISBN 978-1-55659-055-9 .
Roots in the Air: New and Selected Poems . Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-55659-055-9 .
Me-Hayyim le-Hayyim Aherim (selected poems in Hebrew translated by Aharon Shabtai, Dan Miron and Dan Pagis). Jerusalem: 1995
Un abri pour nostêtes (selected poems in French translated by Claude Vigée). Bilingual edition, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France: 2003
Threshold . Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-55659-192-1 .
Ezekiel's Wheels . Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55659-307-9 .
Translations
Anthologies
References
External links
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