Vise

Hamutal Bar-Yosef

1990

Immediately I grabbed the man, gripped him, pressed him to me with all my stomach muscles, the way a carpenter, after applying the metal vise to the cupboard that suddenly collapsed, twists and tightens the tool’s handle, groaning a bit from clenching his guts, that’s how I clenched the man to me, standing there, with every angle of iron in me…

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Hamutal Bar-Yosef

b. 1940

Poet, translator, and researcher in Hebrew literature, Hamutal Bar-Yosef was born at Kibbutz Tel Yosef. She has taught Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University, and writes literary criticism, short stories, poetry, and children’s literature. Aside from her own artistic work, Bar-Yosef is a researcher and translator whose areas of expertise include Russian Jewish literature and mysticism in Hebrew poetry. Bar-Yosef has received the President’s Prize (2002) and the Brenner Prize (2005).

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