Linda Stern Zisquit

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Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator.[1][2] She teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar-Ilan University.

Biography[edit]

Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in Buffalo, NY. She studied at Tufts University and, later, at Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo.[3] In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem.[4] She is married to the lawyer Donald Zisquit, and is the mother of five children. She also runs the ArtSpace Gallery at her home in Jerusalem's German Colony.[5]

Literary career[edit]

Zisquit teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar Ilan University where she is Associate Professor and Poetry Coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program.[6] She has published five collections of original poetry, most recently Return from Elsewhere (co-winner of the Outriders Poetry Project, Buffalo, NY, 2014) and Havoc: New & Selected Poems (2013) as well as several volumes of English translations of Hebrew poetry, including among them the poems of Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997) for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (2009), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry.[7]

Published works[edit]

Poetry collections[edit]

  • Ritual Bath (Broken Moon Press, Seattle, WA, 1993)[8]
  • Unopened Letters (Sheep Meadow Press, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY, 1996)[9]
  • The Face in the Window (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2005)
  • Havoc: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, Rhinebeck, NY, 2013) ISBN 978-1937679149[10]
  • Return from Elsewhere (Outriders Poetry Project, Buffalo, NY, 2014) ISBN 978-0991072415[11]

Translation[edit]

  • Open-Eyed Land: Desert Poems of Yehuda Amichai (Schocken Press, Tel Aviv, 1992)
  • The Book of Ruth (1996) – London, free translation, collaboration with artist Maty Grunberg, portfolio of 18 woodcuts, limited edition (Osband Press, London, 1996). In the permanent collections of the British Museum[12] and La Salle University Art Museum.[13]
  • Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow Press, 1997) ISBN 978-1878818546
  • Let the Words: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006)[14]
  • These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (Toby Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1592642496[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "גלריית הבית של לינדה זיסקויט". הארץ (in Hebrew). 2002-08-22. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  2. ^ "Books: An intimate view of poet Linda Zisquit". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 4 November 2005. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  3. ^ "Department of English, Bar Ilan". Bar-Ilan University. Archived from the original on 2013-01-06.
  4. ^ "Poets & Writers". 9 January 1995.
  5. ^ "ArtSpace Gallery". Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  6. ^ Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program
  7. ^ National Jewish Book Award in Poetry
  8. ^ Reviews of Ritual Bath:
  9. ^ Reviews of Unopened Letters:
  10. ^ Review of Havoc:
  11. ^ Review of Return from Elsewhere:
    • Biederman, Lucy (March 19, 2015), Review, Jewish Book Council
  12. ^ "The Book of Ruth", Collection, The British Museum, retrieved 2020-05-14
  13. ^ The Book of Ruth, Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues, vol. 21, La Salle University Art Museum, 2001
  14. ^ Reviews of Let the Words:
    • "Review", Publishers Weekly, August 2006
    • Taylor, John (Spring 2007), "Contemporary Israeli Poetry", The Antioch Review, 65 (2): 384–391, JSTOR 40284406
  15. ^ Reviews of These Mountains:
    • Lurie, Margot (Spring 2010), "Poems Like Mountains", Jewish Review of Books
    • Person, Hara E. (September 16, 2011), Review, Jewish Book Council

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