Israeli Poems on War and Peace

In this edition of HoCoPoLitSo's The Writing Life, poet and professor Michael Collier talks with poets Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg about their 1997 book of Israeli poems and translations, After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace. Goldberg reads her translation of Ariel Kaufman's "How My Brother is Cain," and Dor reads the Hebrew version. Goldberg reads six more poems from the collection, including Amir Gilboa's "My Brother Was Silent," with the final, haunting line, drawn from the book of Genesis, "His blood cried out from the ground." Goldberg concludes with a poem that sums up the Israeli desire for a long-coveted peace, Yehuda Amichai's "Wildpeace." This program was recorded in 1999. For more information on HoCoPoLitSo's live or recorded programs, visit www.hocopolitso.org.