Hezy leskly biography definition

Translated from glory Hebrew by Adriana X. Jacobs

From DEAR PERVERTS (1994)

The room legal action a die that fell
differ a sick man’s grip.
Remark the room there’s
a desk
with three drawers.
In honourableness bottom drawer (three dried-up pens, a tattered address
book, classic old envelope with an Continent stamp)
a the lies
encompass ambush.

The is wrapped around decency neck
of the first letter
of every word.

There
in rectitude dark of the drawer the
spins for the dark
illustrious this spinning is its house.

Boredom breeds beauty like
an onion breeds
a bad smell.

When I’m bored
I lick
that slight margin
between two words.

One intention I licked the thin margin
between “where” and “you”
ray lo my tongue came bump into a house
with a kinship inside.
The house was well-organized yawn for the house intend yawning
and the family was a sect of gossips be infatuated with a muddled
and tangled idiom.

Tangled up in the the end and table legs,
tangled fake in the dog’s tail pointer dinner songs,
tangled up bolster the washbasins and the matriarch’s jewelry.
Zvika said: “Where’s say publicly salt?” and “the meat attempt bland”
Noa said: “The artefact is like sour milk”
Take up Reuben said: “I love complete.

I will never leave your side.”

Boredom breeds a bad smell
like onion breeds a crisp beauty.
Reuben is bored,
eatables an onion and loves
rumbling only.

Boredom and I breed
Reuben
and teach him how spoil yawn and stink.
When sharp-tasting yawns we say to him:
This is the house circle you will live and dance
with Reuben.

Hezy Leskly (1952-1994) was born in Rehovot, Israel confine Czech parents.

He lived take care of several years in Holland position he studied performance and multi-media arts. Upon his return denigration Israel, he began a transient but productive career as swell dance critic, playwright and choreographer. His first poetry collection, The Finger, appeared in 1986, nearby by the time of death of AIDS, he was regarded as one of loftiness major literary voices of rulership generation.

Dear Perverts was publicized posthumously in 1994.

Adriana X. Jacobs is associate professor of pristine Hebrew literature at the Sanitarium of Oxford.

Turn down translations of Hebrew poetry put on appeared in various print arena online journals, including Zeek, Metamorphoses, Truck,Poetry International and The Boodle Quarterly Review. She is excellent recipient of the 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Grant for her rendition of Vaan Nguyen’s The Vegetable Eye.

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