I Am Tali/ Tali Cohen Shabtai

I read prose only in the third person,

and only translated prose,

poetry, I also read in Hebrew.

I love Wislawa Szymborska, she copies in written word

the creation

in a brilliant fashion, and was recognized during her lifetime and was not among

the female poets who danced the ‘dance of death in life’

for that I lowered her credit.

I think it’s impossible to tag in one breath! A contemporary poetess with

characters that preserved the myth of the ‘cursed poetesses’. For they are

found only in the underground or tomb

There is no negotiation with this judgement

Mainstreamism repels me.

Bestsellers I do not touch.

I love nonfiction books.

Newspapers do not count at all as the writing and reading genre.

And my therapist I address in the second person singular

while omitting the third degree: “doctor”, it’s ok, it’s acceptable –

many poetesses have sat in my chair in front of him

Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath,

and those who ended up as their own hangman.

I often write in the first person singular and also to talk

It is

my way to circumvent

myself from afar.

And do not ask what I often write about! I do not like rhetorical questions that belittle

my intellect.

Tali Cohen Shabtai.

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