Poetry. This is a first bilingual (Hebrew-English) edition of Dorit Weisman's selected poems, praised, by poets Ronny Someck, Eli Hirsh, and Giland Meiri. Weisman ia a winner of a number of poetry awards, international and Israeli, including the Yehuda-Amichai Prize for Poetry.
In one of her poems, Dorit Weisman suggests 'dancing the Csárdás with you.' Reading her poetry will demonstrate that this is metaphorical: The Hungarian dance, the Israeli dance hall and the DJ are all Charles Bukowski. Strange? No, nothing can be strange in a book which opens with 'A Small Poem About Small Breasts.'--Ronny Someck
The dry, restrained reportage and the poet's prosaic extraction from her everyday experiences all cover an internal seething, restraining a wish to explode...What follows as a second thread in Weisman's poetry is the authenticity, the sorrow at the crumbling family, entrenched within, all drenched with humor, quietude and much love.--From the judges' of the Yehuda Amichai Prize for Poetry, 2003
The shattering of happiness, and the wish to protect it, to acknowledge the existence, or at least the memory through the empty spaces that threaten it--through the anxiety, knowledge of change, aging, yearning, loss--is returned aplenty in Weisman's poetry.--Eli Hirsh
The poem contains a remarkable Whitmanesque movement, describing in the first person, through the eyes of a backpacker, Australia's great spirit of wide open spaces.--Gilad Meiri
