Reality Crumbs

<p><b>First book-length collection of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet.</b></p><p><i>Reality Crumbs</i> is the first book-length collection in English of the work of the celebrated Israeli poet playwright and filmmaker Raquel Chalfi. Versatile and unpredictable Chalfi's often visionary and dramatic poetry has been acclaimed for its independence and daring by leading Israeli critics. In the words of poet and critic Eli Hirsch her work is a thrilling combination of simplicity and chaos clarity and mystery.</p><p>Ever present in Chalfi's poetry is the need to touch to feel the tangible and sensuous as well as a desire to break all boundaries and smash so-called conventional wisdoms be they social cultural or linguistic. Her poems are often anxious restless inquisitive nearly physical in their constant search for and chasing after that one element that will help them get a step closer to grasping the mystery at their center. And if she takes on the persona of a wild biker or a witch it is not merely to travel freely in the land of fancy and so taste another's life but more importantly to measure the extent of her empathy.</p>