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Language, Lies & Truth-telling: An Israeli Poet's Perspective
February 19 at 7:00 PMWesley Gallery
English Lecture
Free and Open to All
Rachel Tzvia Back: poet, translator, peace activist and professor of literature has lived in Israel since 1980 and her family has resided in Israel/Palestine for seven generations. Her most recent book is A Messenger Comes, a collection of elegies. Her previous collection, On Ruins & Return: Poems 1999-2005 tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. She is the editor and primary translator of the English edition of the critically acclaimed With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry which Poet Adrienne Rich has hailed as "an historic collection."
Supported by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Year of the Humanities and the Arts at the University of Miami For more information about the Year of the Humanities and the Arts visit: miami.edu/takingflight
Rachel Tzvia Back: poet, translator, peace activist and professor of literature has lived in Israel since 1980 and her family has resided in Israel/Palestine for seven generations. Her most recent book is A Messenger Comes, a collection of elegies. Her previous collection, On Ruins & Return: Poems 1999-2005 tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. She is the editor and primary translator of the English edition of the critically acclaimed With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry which Poet Adrienne Rich has hailed as "an historic collection."
Supported by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Year of the Humanities and the Arts at the University of Miami For more information about the Year of the Humanities and the Arts visit: miami.edu/takingflight
