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    Must-Read Poetry: November 2019

    by Nick Ripatrazone Nov 06, 2019 3 minutes

    Here are five notable books of poetry publishing this month.

    Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf (translated by Yael Segalovitz)

    “I can’t speak about it in Hebrew, but in English it’s easier. Maybe because for me the English language contains distance. Hebrew is too intimate.” Shimon Adaf wrote as a book-length elegy for his sister Aviva, who died suddenly at 43. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, Adaf’s collection appears here in English for the first time, with a skilled translation by Segalovitz. Adaf composed the collection during the year after her death, so he “was forced to

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