Life in translation / Azila Talit Reisenberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reisenberger, Azila Talit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African poetry (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (68 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athlone [South Africa] : Modjaji Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Azila Talit Reisenberger is a Bible scholar, a rabbi, a mother, a wife, and a poet. In all these selves she grapples with translating her life from Hebrew to English and back again. Life in Translation is full of wry humour, longing, bitterness, sweetness, playfulness, and subversions of traditional meanings and texts - a delightful book that charms and surprises anew with each reading.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Everlasting Eve; You; Yom Kippur; Heritage; In the Beginning; Four Daughters; Sisterhood; Shema; Scent of Love; Going home; Heavy heart; Love; In the heat of nights; Silver anniversary; Class reunion; Not yet; Enough; Philomela; Creating; Your words; Writing poetry; The thread for her life; Some people's thoughts; Disappointment; Sacred thanks; Kaddish; Silent anguish; Violent death; Table Bay Psalm; Seven year itch; Wasted knowledge; Yiches; Naches; Whispering; Thanksgiving; Ten past the wedding; Five past menopause

Time of wisdomQuarter to retirement; In Exile; In Between; You who live secure in your mother-tongue; Living in the dictionary; Notes to the poems; About the poet; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-06347-6

9786613063472

1-920397-00-0

1-920397-62-0

1-920397-48-5

OCLC:

830165442