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Lali Tsipi Michaeli




nationality: Israel

living in: Israel

occupation: Poet

born: 1964


Lali was born in formerly Soviet Georgia in 1964. She emigrated to Israel in 1972, where she studied Comparative World Literature, Sociology And Antropology at Bar-Ilan University and followed on to post-graduate studies in Literature. She has the distinction of being the first Israeli Georgian poet in Israel, who writes in Hebrew. She has taught Hebrew at Bar-Ilan University.
Presently translates from Georgian into Hebrew.


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Poems by Lali, Eked Publishing, Tel Aviv 1990

Translation from Georgian to Hebrew:

The Tenth Man, by Guram Batyashvili, Published by Chalonot Publishers, Tel Aviv, 1999

Paint Me Ablaze / Lali Tsipi Michaeli

Paint me ablaze

like Rome

start from the head eyeballs mouth nose

castle

hills via neck

harnessed

dusty roads

long hands fingers of

books

waist stomach

kingdom of sorrow

all the king's seats

streams of the fields

and valleys of love

my thighs and knees will slowly burn

for a sign of my future shame

paint

a birth mark

my calves that are trained to go stright ahead til the ankles

convents

feet

toes

the king's army

like an air my name will burn

my meaning will be strewn from my ashes

any sense from my tendons will be free



''translated from Hebrew by Michael Simkin''

more poems: http://www.gladhat.com/arts_mainpage.php?list_mode=search&art_type=poetry&user_id=50&room_id=0

Paint Me Ablaze, Carmel Publishers, Jerusalem, will be available in bookshops in 2006.