Poems translated by Tsipi Keller

Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the U.S. since 1974. The author of nine books, she is the recipient of several literary awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, New York Foundation for the Arts fiction grants, and an Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University. Her most recent translation collections are: Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (SUNY Press); and The Hymns of Job & Other Poems, a Lannan Translation Selection (BOA Editions). Her selected volume of Raquel Chalfi’s poems, Reality Crumbs, will be published in 2015 (SUNY Press).

  • Uncle Yehuda Sharvit Between Marrakesh and Draa

    When my uncle Yehuda got drunk