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The voices of snipers on the Israel Defense Forces radio station
The voices of snipers on the Israel Defense Forces radio station
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7 minutes
Released:
Jul 6, 2016
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Podcast episode
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Today, host Marcela Sulak reads the poetry of Mei-Tal Nadler, whose work distorts and defamiliarizes the Israeli locale in ways that are political, lyrical, and alarming. This is the beginning of "The Voices of Snipers on the Israel Defense Forces Radio Station*": "The voices of snipers can’t be heard over the radio waves of the IDF Station. But they chose songs for us before they left. What songs do snipers like? I focus all my listening on their musical choices, till my focus becomes a gaze. Perhaps that’s how snipers are trained..." Nadler received the 2014 Teva Prize in Poetry and the 2008 Ministry of Culture award for emerging poets. Her debut collection, "Experiments in electricity," was published in 2013. She is a doctoral candidate in Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University and a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Text: Three poems by Mei-Tal Nadler in World Literature Today, translated by Rachel Tzvia Back. Music: Rockfour - Avshalom Vaadat Charigim - Ein Li Makom Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack ABBA - The Winner Takes It All Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Released:
Jul 6, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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