Shirley Kaufman
Shirley Kaufman (born June 5, 1923 Seattle) is an American-Israeli poet and translator.[1]
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Life
Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940. She graduated from 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] American Poetry Review,[5] and The New Yorker.[6]
Awards
- 1979 NEA Fellowship
- 1989 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America
- 1990/1991 Shelley Memorial Award
Works
Poetry
- "Cyclamen"; "The Last Threshold", Poets Against War
- "Milk", Poetry Foundation
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- Hebrew translation by Dan Pagis, Tel Aviv: 1980
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- 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
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Translations
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- Scrolls of Fire, translated from the Hebrew of Abba Kovner. Tel Aviv: 1978
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Anthologies
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References
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- ↑ http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authorDetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=799
- ↑ http://www.harpers.org/archive/1965/01/0014763
- ↑ http://www.aprweb.org/issues/recent.shtml
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/shirley_kaufman/search?contributorName=shirley%20kaufman
External links
- "A Conversation with Shirley Kaufman", Eve Grubin, Poetry Society of America
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