At the End of Sleep
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About this book

With At the End of Sleep, an anthology selected from the past decade of Israeli poet Tal Nitzán's work, one of Hebrew poetry's most powerful and acclaimed contemporary voices is finally given her English-language due. Reaching beyond lyricism for its own sake with her lucid, sharp, and occasionally ferocious verse, Nitzán illuminates sexuality and struggle, protests the abuse of power, and plumbs the depths of the Israeli condition.

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Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781632060037

DOMÉSTICA
(2002)

In the Time of Cholera

Facing one another
we turn our backs to the world’s calamities.
Behind our closed eyes and curtains
both heat and war
erupted at once.
The heat will calm down first,
the faint breeze
won't bring back
the boys who have been shot,
won't cool down
the wrath of the living.
Even if it tarry,
the fire will come,
many waters won't quench etc.*
Our arms as well
can only reach our own bodies:
We are a small crowd
incited to bite,
to cling to each other
to barricade ourselves in bed
while in the ozone above us
a mocking smile
cracks wide open.
* “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it” (Song of Solomon, 8:7).
—T.N. & V.E.

Something quiet

Nothing is quieter
than blows inflicted upon others,
nothing threatens less
the satisfied soul's calm.
The defeat in their eyes is mute,
their arms
drop quietly.
What a pleasant silence.
Except for a tiny piercing sound
that bothers mainly in the mornings
but can be dimmed easily
by the relaxing rustle
of newspaper pages.
Before they're buried under ruins
they disappear under the Entertainment Section
the half full cup of coffee
the slamming door
in our house
that stands firm.
—T.N. & V.E.

Nocturne

Short is the pleasure and long is the night,
daunting and barren and deaf.
For one moment more the body clasps tight,
then hides in the sheets by itself.
Embrace will unravel and darkness will creep
bet...

Table of contents

  1. DOMÉSTICA (2002)
  2. AN ORDINARY EVENING (2006)
  3. THE FIRST TO FORGET (2009)
  4. LOOK AT THE SAME CLOUD TWICE (2012)
  5. NEW POEMS
  6. About the Author
  7. Colophon

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