Linda Stern Zisquit

Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator.[1][2] She teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar-Ilan University.

Biography

Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in Buffalo, NY. She studied at Tufts University and, later, at Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo.[3] In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem.[4] She is married to the lawyer Donald Zisquit, and is the mother of five children. She also runs the ArtSpace Gallery at her home in Jerusalem's German Colony.[5]

Literary career

Zisquit teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar Ilan University where she is Associate Professor and Poetry Coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program.[6] She has published five collections of original poetry, most recently Return from Elsewhere (co-winner of the Outriders Poetry Project, Buffalo, NY, 2014) and Havoc: New & Selected Poems (2013) as well as several volumes of English translations of Hebrew poetry, including among them the poems of Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997) for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (2009), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry.[7]

Published works

Poetry collections

  • Ritual Bath (Broken Moon Press, Seattle, WA, 1993)[8]
  • Unopened Letters (Sheep Meadow Press, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY, 1996)[9]
  • The Face in the Window (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2005)
  • Havoc: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, Rhinebeck, NY, 2013) ISBN 978-1937679149[10]
  • Return from Elsewhere (Outriders Poetry Project, Buffalo, NY, 2014) ISBN 978-0991072415[11]

Translation

  • Open-Eyed Land: Desert Poems of Yehuda Amichai (Schocken Press, Tel Aviv, 1992)
  • The Book of Ruth (1996) – London, free translation, collaboration with artist Maty Grunberg, portfolio of 18 woodcuts, limited edition (Osband Press, London, 1996). In the permanent collections of the British Museum[12] and La Salle University Art Museum.[13]
  • Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow Press, 1997) ISBN 978-1878818546
  • Let the Words: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006)[14]
  • These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (Toby Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1592642496[15]

References

  1. ^ "גלריית הבית של לינדה זיסקויט". הארץ (in Hebrew). 2002-08-22. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  2. ^ "Books: An intimate view of poet Linda Zisquit". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 4 November 2005. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  3. ^ "Department of English, Bar Ilan". Bar-Ilan University. Archived from the original on 2013-01-06.
  4. ^ "Poets & Writers". 9 January 1995.
  5. ^ "ArtSpace Gallery". Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  6. ^ Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program
  7. ^ National Jewish Book Award in Poetry
  8. ^ Reviews of Ritual Bath:
  9. ^ Reviews of Unopened Letters:
  10. ^ Review of Havoc:
  11. ^ Review of Return from Elsewhere:
    • Biederman, Lucy (March 19, 2015), Review, Jewish Book Council
  12. ^ "The Book of Ruth", Collection, The British Museum, retrieved 2020-05-14
  13. ^ The Book of Ruth, Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues, vol. 21, La Salle University Art Museum, 2001
  14. ^ Reviews of Let the Words:
    • "Review", Publishers Weekly, August 2006
    • Taylor, John (Spring 2007), "Contemporary Israeli Poetry", The Antioch Review, 65 (2): 384–391, JSTOR 40284406
  15. ^ Reviews of These Mountains:
    • Lurie, Margot (Spring 2010), "Poems Like Mountains", Jewish Review of Books
    • Person, Hara E. (September 16, 2011), Review, Jewish Book Council